February 2012
3 posts
“Love is a blind syphilitic whore with no sense of humour.”
– Me
January 2012
26 posts
“What such people don’t get is that most people who like more obscure music or...”
– How to Not Care What Other People Think of You | Rookie (via somethingchanged)
“If you don’t wear lipstick, I can’t talk to you”
– Isabella Blow
“Never Fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.”
– Diana Vreeland
“Homophobia: The fear that gay men will treat you the way you treat women.”
– Unknown
Desiderata (desired things)
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become...
December 2011
7 posts
“Prose formatted
in the style of poetry
is not a poem.
Yet almost every...”
– It’s Everywhere
“It is as dreadful to be too rich as to be too tall. In the first instance you...”
– Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel The Allure of Chanel by Paul Morand (Pushkin Press, 2008).
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites”
– Marc Chagall
“My imagination functions better when I don’t have to speak to people.”
– ― Patricia Highsmith
November 2011
21 posts
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
No, I wasn’t meant to love and be loved. If I’d lived longer, I would have waited longer.
Knowing you are faithless keeps me alive and hungry. Knowing you faithful would kill me with joy.
Delicate are you, and your vows are delicate, too, so easily do they break.
You are a laconic marksman. You leave me not dead but perpetually dying.
I want my friends to heal me, succor me. Instead, I get...
“Sweet lad, tender lad,
Have no shame, you’re mine for good;
We share a sole...”
– Imitation of the Arabic, by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, Translation: Michael Green.
“the fantasy of a fully revolutionary art—turns out to be very old. As early in...”
– (via hungryghoast)
“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
– Yukio Mishima