(Source: 16insomnie, via 76totterslane)
"I wasn’t meant to be good."
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- Lily, The House of Mirth
Reading this book at sixteen was bothersome, annoying, captivating, heartbreaking. Reading it now, with my twenties quickly dissolving into a series of missed chances and regrets, is probably not wise.
Occupy Wall Street? Egyptian riots? London looting?
NOPE.
Penn State student rioting over the firing of Joe Paterno. More photos from last night’s riots here.
People.
I know.
(Source: oddlyvintage, via sittingonthehorizon)
“I hated melancholy, the way it could fester in a room and turn everything pale. There was nothing left to say, I thought, not today. It was then that Canadian Jay once again stood up, this time on a chair, and declared peameal bacon the greatest Canadian export since Alan Thicke.”
Danny Goodman, “Somehow There Was More Here”
“Danny Goodman is very special indeed. When you’re ready to scream about the shallow fields sown in contemporary, urban, hipster fiction, along comes Danny, who is himself contemporary, urban, and, thank god, an old soul, one who can actually capture and crystallize the modern experience.” — Joseph Boyden, author of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel Through Black Spruce
"To me, it’s like bad moviemaking, where as soon as Dad grabs the puppy, the shot immediately goes to Junior’s teary face — like the director does not trust the audience to have an appropriately developed emotion by itself,” Ms. Farinet wrote in an e-mail. “That’s what emoticons do. PLEASE don’t ‘show’ me that I should be happy-faced or sad-faced or that you are sad-faced or happy-faced.
“Can you imagine,” wrote Ms. Farinet, “reading the end of ‘The Great Gatsby’ like that?: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past :-( "
“Can you imagine,” wrote Ms. Farinet, “reading the end of ‘The Great Gatsby’ like that?: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past :-( "
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Emoticons Move to the Business World - Cultural Studies - NYTimes.com
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- Now, there you go, River Song. Melody Pond. You’re the woman who married me.
(via 76totterslane)
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1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but that does not mean the word has two definitions.
3. Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.
4. People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.
5. There may not be a reason to share your cake. It is, after all, yours. You probably baked it yourself, in an oven of your own construction with ingredients you harvested yourself. It may be possible to keep your entire cake while explaining to any nearby hungry people just how reasonable you are.
6. Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they’ve been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.
7. Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.
8. Don’t ask yourself if something is fair. Ask someone else—a stranger in the street, for example.
9. People gathering in the streets feeling wronged tend to be loud, as it is difficult to make oneself heard on the other side of an impressive edifice.
10. It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.
11. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.
12. If you have a large crowd shouting outside your building, there might not be room for a safety net if you’re the one tumbling down when it collapses.
13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.
"— Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance [x] (via marthur)
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“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
- Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
I don’t know how to explain this simple concept to people who keep asking me why I’d bother joining the occupation movement. It’s because I have too much self-respect to just sit by and do nothing, say nothing, when I know there’s a lot to be said and done.
(via ohsillytwigg)
