August 2010
153 posts
“If somebody says, ”I love you,” to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (via fucckitup)
“Today, good taste is often erroneously rejected as old fashioned because the ordinary man, seeking approval of his so-called personality, prefers to follow the dictates of his own peculiar style rather than submit to any objective criterion of taste”
(but does it float)
“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
(via artpixie)
artpixie:
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most People exist, that is all.”
-Oscar Wilde
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
– Elbert Hubbard | Submitted by christinakim. (via quote-book) (via poeticheartache) (via wick3dpuplecrayon)
artpixie:
“Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.”
-Brian Andreas
“‘This is love,’ she thought, ‘isn’t it? When you notice...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
artpixie:
“Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that’s not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.”
— Gabrielle Zevin
