February 2012
31 posts
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
– Virginia Woolf
“I like cigarettes… I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a...”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Radiohead, Pyramid Song
“It was a strange world ahead that would unfold, a thunderhead of a world with...”
– Bob Dylan, Chronicles Volume One
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone. Then- in my childhood, in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn From every depth of good and ill The mystery which...
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums
