February 2012
17 posts
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman, “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(via anthologyz)
beautiful. (via nezua)
“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via bavarde)
January 2012
39 posts
The Economist | The joy of walking: A path through time immemorial http://www.economist.com/node/21541720?frsc=dg%7Cb via @theeconomist
“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept...”
– John Steinbeck (via thatkindofwoman)
John Steinbeck Letter about Love
In November of 1958, John Steinbeck — the renowned author of, most notably, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men — received a letter from his eldest son, Thom, who was attending boarding school. In it, the teenager spoke of Susan, a young girl with whom he believed he had fallen in love.
Steinbeck replied the same day. His beautiful letter of advice can be enjoyed below.
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“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more...”
– Nick Hornsby (Songbook)
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With...”
– Carson McCullers (via psychotherapy)
SOUND MONEY: Hipsters are the prime representation... →
atomicsocialist:
Hipsters are the prime representation of late stage capitalism. Conspicuous consumption, perfectly informed about a million things that don’t matter, nostalgia for any era before the great decline of the empire, commercializing any symbols of revolutionary or symbolic resistance, turning art into…
