May 2011
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To make reality endurable, we are all obliged to encourage in ourselves a few...
– Marcel Proust (via wine-loving-vagabond)
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But above all let there be pleasure. Let there be textural delight, let there be...
– Stephen Fry (via wine-loving-vagabond)
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National Parks Project →
musicians and filmmakers capture their experience of the landscape in our provincial parks. this is gorgeous and inspiring
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• Sex doesn’t have to mean marriage, children, or even I love you.
• Sex...
– (excerpt from Hello Cruel World)
Rare Early Articles - Hunter S. Thompson →
tetw:
By Hunter S. Thompson
A collection of rare, early articles from the one and only Dr. Gonzo, scanned in their original form. (Click images to see them full size).
It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it, some people, as far...
– High Fidelity (via karentruscott)
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[Fiction is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that...
– Julian Barnes @ theparisreview (via billyjane)
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Warren Zevon music archive →
On April 7, 2005, we received permission for Warren Zevon shows to be hosted at the Archive: Subject: Warren Zevon Please allow the exchange of unreleased live material from Warren Zevon on your website. Sincerely, Jordan Zevon
Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.
– Pablo Neruda
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and...
– E.B. White (via seewhatisay)
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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it’s about dying, about the...
– MORDECAI RICHLER
Flaneuses →
THE DÉRIVATEUR →
French anthropologist Chombart de Lauwe inspired the idea of the “dérive.” In 1952, de Lauwe set out to document the narrowness of the typical Parisian life. To do this, he diagrammed the movements of one student over the course of an entire year. The student’s daily routine formed a triangle, with three points representing the student’s university, piano teacher, and home.
Disturbed by de...
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild...
– hunter s. thompson (via wishonpinkcars)
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