we were just pretending
"I guess I like that idea that you could pretend yourself into new feelings and new relationships. Obviously I'm a big pretender. but the kind of leap where it's almost like some kind of science fiction thing happens. Like we were just pretending, and then what's this? We actually have new powers now, and we see each other differently, and in fact all of life has suddenly tilted. I'm going for that everyday, personally."
~ Miranda July
~ Miranda July
Posts tagged "literature"
The inimitable Grant Snider strikes again, with the day jobs of famous poets – including Jack Kerouac (railroad worker), Charles Bukowski (mailman), Emily Dickinson (cat-keeper), and T. S. Eliot (bank clerk.)
(via thomdunn)
Chapter One of Moby-Dick, read by Tilda Swinton. Because sometimes there are awesome things in the world.
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
Just picked up this book yesterday. Apocalyptic fiction/coming-of-age novel. Pretty great so far.
JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy: cover design revealed
Man, I hope it doesn’t suck.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Illustrations for Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (Amazing book).
A Clockwork Orange iPhone case
A thing that I want.
I love reading bad reviews of classic books on Amazon and Goodreads
