And we laughed because…
Posted in Quote Included on Jul 28th, 2010
And we laughed because there was so much that we did not know, and we knew that there was so much we did not know.
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer, pg. 222
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With the exception of birds…
Posted in Quote Included on Jul 1st, 2010
…. with the exception of birds, trees were the only things on earth that weren’t cute when they were babies. They looked like branches stuck into the ground, and I remember thinking that by the time they were fully grown I would be old.
And that’s pretty much what happened.
When You Are Engulfed [...]
Red hair is caused…
Posted in Quote Included on Jul 1st, 2010
Red hair is caused by sugar and lust.
Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins, pg 55
Think of all the hours left…
Posted in None of the Above, Quote Included on Jun 22nd, 2010
“Think of all the hours left between now and the time the sun goes down,” she said, without looking at me.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami, pg 67.
The world itself…
Posted in None of the Above, Quote Included on May 22nd, 2010
The world itself, whose single meaning I do not understand, is but a vast irrational. If one could only say just once: ‘this is clear’, all would be saved.
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus, pg 31
And By Midafternoon…
Posted in None of the Above, Quote Included on May 13th, 2010
And by midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else.
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer, pg 47
I wanted real adventures to happen…
Posted in Quote Included, Snapshot on Apr 18th, 2010
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
Dubliners - “An Encounter” - James Joyce, pg 20
April Fools: Look at ‘em
Posted in Quote Included, Snapshot on Apr 1st, 2010
“Look at ‘em” he said. “Goddam fools.”
“Who?” said Ginnie.
“I don’t know. Anybody.”
Nine Stories - “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” - J.D. Salinger, pg 48
But I don’t want comfort. I want God….
Posted in Quote Included, Snapshot on Mar 29th, 2010
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God. I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
“In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“All right, then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, [...]
O Lente Lente Currite Noctic Equi!
Posted in Quote Included, Snapshot on Mar 17th, 2010
O lente lente currite noctis equi!
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, V.ii.149