September 2010
42 posts
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– A Game of You, Neil Gaiman (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still...”
– The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
– The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Being married to Charlie’s got me all confused. I’ve gotta get my hetero on.”
– Frank, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (via fortuneandglory)
“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed,...”
– John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (via fortuneandglory)
“…the past is gone…the future isn’t here yet…so, all there is, is this…”
– Broken Flowers (2005)
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via swallowsgrass)
fortuneandglory:
Don [taking a bite of the French toast that his daughter Sally cooked]: What’s on this?
Sally: Mrs. Butterworth’s.
Don: Go get it. [waits and Sally grabs the bottle] That’s rum. Read labels.
Sally: Is it bad?
Don [considering this]: Not really. [takes another bite]
-Mad Men 4x10: The Beautiful Girls
“First rule of politics, kiddo: don’t ever let the truth get in the way of a good...”
– Nucky Thompson, Boardwalk Empire 1x01 (via fortuneandglory)
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“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as...”
– David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College commencement speech (2005)
“Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in...”
– How do people as blistering stupid as Delaware GOP candidate Christine O’Donnell ever get in a position of power? It’s mind-boggling. This shithead’s official campaign page doesn’t even have any information on her, not even any mention of her platform or where she stands on her political policies,...
“I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement....”
– Delaware GOP nominee Christine O’Donnell redefining what the suffix “-ist” means. (via fortuneandglory)
“I was a revolutionary who lost his ideals in heroin, a philosopher who lost his...”
– Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram (via fortuneandglory)
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via michiamodiane)
“The DEA has led an aggressive national law enforcement effort that results in a...”
– Kevin Zeese, Time for California to End the Unwinnable Marijuana War (via fortuneandglory)
“You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make...”
– Richard Ford, Wildlife (via fortuneandglory)
“Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between...”
– Elbert Hubbard, Electrical Review (1895)
“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and...”
– Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram (via fortuneandglory)
“And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in the world,...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via veriteetamour)
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men (via fortuneandglory)
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via talentforliving)
“All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that,...”
– Anton Chekhov (via dystopium)
“Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.”
– Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram (via fortuneandglory)
“Cruelty is a kind of cowardice. Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry they are...”
– Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram (via fortuneandglory)
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“You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re chicken, you’ve got...”
– Paul talking to Holly in the cab, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (via roxieisme)
“Memories are wonderful things, if you don’t have to deal with the past.”
– Before Sunset (2004)
“I believe in an America that protects those who are the victims of hate and...”
– Michael Moore, If the ‘Mosque’ Isn’t Built, This Is No Longer America (via fortuneandglory)
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners...”
– Marcel Proust (via blessedbygod)
“I was going through deep and silent water. Nothing and no-one could make me...”
– Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts (via fortuneandglory)
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex. (via learninglog)
“When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what...”
– Richard Ford, Wildlife (via fortuneandglory)
“I felt above all, tired. Tiredness: if there was a constant symptom of the...”
– Joseph O’Neill - Netherland. (via baltimorehorses)
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what...”
– Alice in Wonderland (via quote-book)
“The very reason why poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via lauraporah)
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via cuddlycynic)