December 2009
“Himself is the source of the best and most a man can be or achieve. The more...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does, is bring you back to the natural...”
– – Natalie Goldberg (via ilovereadingandwriting) (via booklover)
Pete Rock - Fakin Jax’
Writers not the best rolemodels
inanevice:
Perhaps all the problems in my life spur, not from my own actions or frustrated desires, but from idealizing the lives of my favorite authors, when in reality:
James Joyce: drunken asshole
Marcel Proust: neurotic frequenter of whorehouses, who was unhealthily obsessed with his mother and locked himself in his room for ten years with blackout blinds
Virginia Wolf: psychotic,...
“I detest following, but also leading.
To obey? Never! And just as bad—to...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Einsame (1882) (via stairwaytocalifornia) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Just when I thought Nietzsche couldn’t get more awesome.
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“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record...”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (via demurecure)
I want meet more women in real life who quote High Fidelity.
