January 2011
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“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
– Virginia Woolf (via inspiri)
“No need to sparkle.” Noted.
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Very nice article about my tunes with an... →
I love reading interviews with real musicians.
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JPBarlow's List of Adult Principles →
Someone compiled this list from John Perry Barlow’s tweets.
This is more than good, and not at all trite. To be savoured.
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Adult Principle #1: Be patient. No matter what.
Adult Principle #2: Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
Adult Principle #3: Never assume the motives...
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“Someone takes offense: I can’t help it. It is better for me to offend him...”
– Michel de Montaigne, Ceremony of interviews between kings
I am cherry-picking to a some extent, I know.
“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer...”
– High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Gotta agree, based on previous experiences.
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a...”
– Edmund Burke (via procrastinaction)
NTS: Now that you know it, do not repeat.
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“Not tonight, Josephine / In an army’s strength / Therein lies the denouement / From here you’re haunting me / By the Seine — so beautiful / Only not to be of use — Impossible”
— Josephine, Tori Amos
Deliriously beautiful / beautifully delirious.
“Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get...”
– Jason Mraz (via mynameisary)
Things which sound good but which I have difficulty believing in.
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How do you pronounce "Ikea" in your country?
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“When you’re translating, you try to preserve the sheen, the paleness of those...”
– brodsky (via quellequaintrelle)
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“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You...”
– Harvey Mackay (via heartily)
And people cannot understand why I am sticky about time.
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Watchjimmyfallon-:
this is one of the most adorable clips ever oh goodness
“Elmo’s three-and-a-half going on 48.”
I simply love it when he appears in grown-up programmes.
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Psychological Reactions to Esperanto by Claude... →
“A language, like love and the soul, is something that is human and alive, however difficult it is to define: it is a natural product of the spirit of an entire race, not of a single individual. Artificial languages are repulsive and grotesque… Dr Zamenhof, like Dr Frankenstein, created a monster out of living bits and pieces, and, as Mary Shelley tried to tell us, nothing good can...
474. If you choose not to own a TV, keep it to...
This Rule just speaks to me so, because I really don’t own a TV.
But what’s all the fuss over this about? I don’t get it. What is one supposed to say, especially when someone (usually an acquaintance) enthuses about some programme on TV but one simply hasn’t seen it?
This is how it usually goes:
“Oh, I haven’t seen it.” (No, I’m not going to tell...
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“I did not think - I was a battle-ground for the thoughts of many men.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald on reading, The Beautiful and Damned (via charlottecollection)
A notion that strangely complements what I happen to be reading now.
“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because...”
– Nicole Krauss (via itookadeepbreath)
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“Of course, just like you, there are many things in my life that are less than...”
– Wang Leehom (via leehomhom)
Old but gold. One of the reasons why I used to admire him so much (I still kind of do).
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Emotional Internet Radio →
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adastra30:
“What are you going to do with your life?” In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer… “Live each day as if it’s your last’, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it...
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– ~ Neil Gaiman (via gatekeeper)
Let 2011 be a blast, everyone :)