January 2012
28 posts
Throwing Away the Alarm Clock
henrycharlesbukowski:
my father always said, “early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee, frying bacon and scrambled eggs. my father followed this general routine for a lifetime and died young, broke, and, I think, not too wise. taking note, I rejected his advice and it became,...
The soul learns in spirals, not direct, linear paths.
– Sonia Choquette (via paperlover)
When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...
– Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)
Love lost, such a cost,
Give me things
that don’t get lost.
Like a coin...
– Neil Young, Old Man
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In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...
– Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via suzywire)
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Even after so many years I find myself unable to watch a spectacular sunset or...
– Roman Polanski on Sharon Tate (via madplaguerat)
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via bookmania)
Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...
– Homer, The Iliad (via seperate)
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Three a.m drunks, all over America, were staring at the walls, having finally...
– Charles Bukowski (via thechocolatebrigade)
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Last summer’s reeds are all engraved in ice
as is your image in my eye;...
– Winter Landscape, with Rooks, Sylvia Plath
December 2011
37 posts
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...
– Charles Bukowski (via burnthazel)
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I am really intoxicated.
I made out with a someone random, closed my foot in a car door and was probably ridiculous as fuck. It was worth it I think.
delicatelybruised asked: Happy birthday:)
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spidergoats replied to your post: Happy Birthday to me.
Thank you! You missed it. Lots of awesome stuff happened among all of the bull shit.
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Happy Birthday to me.
Write drunk; edit sober.
– Ernest Hemingway (via deadwriters)
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thewhitestdevilyouknow:
If you have a ringback tone for your phone, I hate you. No if’s, and’s, or maybe’s. I hate you so fucking much and I hope all of the awful things in the world happen to you and only you for the rest of forever.
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Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early...
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
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How I feel is that if I wanted anything I’d take it. That’s what I’ve always...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via bookmania)
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