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Life is a musical  

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— Dunya Mikhail, section 23 of “Tablets V,” Poetry (May 2019)

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“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

— E.M. Forster, from A Room with a View (Penguin Essentials, 2011)

A portrait of a little girl in the backseat of a car. Mali. ©Delphine Diallo

— Gertrude Stein

— Khalil Gibran (via quotefeeling)

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

idea for a classics podcast: get a bunch of people together who learned greek mythology at some point in their life and kind of remember it but have mostly forgotten it, and then try to get them to recount stories from greek mythology with only their vague recollection to guide them. as they attempt to piece together the story, they’ll likely end up with something that sort of resembles the original myth but with a bunch of weird differences, thereby creating new traditions in the vein of the greek bards of old

i’ll call it “homer? i hardly know her!”

— Edgar Allan Poe (via goodreadss)

breaking bad, fight club, rick and morty, clockwork orange, and the catcher in the rye are all arguably good things - but if a man says they are his FAVORITE book/movie/tv show? RUN.

Can someone explain this to me?

They’re all works that are examinations of compelling but deeply flawed (usually narcissistic and violent) men. People rightly like all these works because they are good, but the implication of the original post is that if a guy says they are his favorite work, he is probably misunderstanding the point of the work and instead idolizing the male protagonist and is unable to recognize their flaws.

Basically, ask why they like it. If they like it because they think it’s well-written and made, you’re probably good. But if they want to be like Walter White, or Tyler Durden, or Rick Sanchez, or Alex DeLarge, or Holden Caulfield: yeah, RUN.

Finally I can reblog this post.

This also goes for Mad Men, run like hell from any guy who identifies with/idolizes Don Draper

“It’s a satire. Many don’t get that… My daughter had a friend named Max. She told me ‘Fight Club’ is his favorite movie, I told her never to talk to Max again.” David Fincher, director of Fight Club 

— Albert Camus, A Happy Death (via coral)

— Albert Camus, A Happy Death (via coral)

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— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss (via coral)

— Mary Shelley, from a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley written c. July 1814