downtothelastbullet:

• “I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.”
• “So do you live right in this area? Or what?” “Right under the bridge here. In a cave. Actually, you can’t pass. You’ve got to solve a riddle. I have to give you a…

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ejcf:

“It will not be we who reach, Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths, and fewer of our weaknesses. More confident, farseeing, capable, and prudent. For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans, are capable of greatness.”

-Carl Sagan

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ivebeenreadinglately:

I started to get some writing done, but there was an interruption. Blessed are the interrupted, for they shall etcetera.

William Maxwell, from a letter to Eudora Welty of October 19, 1953

aseaofquotes:

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

TOPICAL.

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weloveppm:

Unlike most of the folk singers in the burgeoning folk scene in Greenwich Village in the early 60s, Mary Travers did not rebel and travel there to chase her dreams of being a musician. She was partially raised there, and her family lived close-by.

“While others of my peer group were…

wordpainting:

Happy Birthday, David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008)

““Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name’s Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion — these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.” 

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