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you may want to think twice if you’ve ever received a smile from jean luc! by sv
quote of the day
quote of the day
“the most beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.”
-marcel proust
quote of the day
“all of old. nothing else ever. ever tried. ever failed. no matter. try again. fail again. fail better.”
-samuel beckett, worstward ho
quote of the day
“nothing was ever in tune. people just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, india, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, beethoven, bach, buddha, christ, tm, h, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, new york city, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. people had to find things to do while waiting to die. i guess it was nice to have a choice.”
-charles bukowski, women, 1978
quote of the day
-j.d. salinger, the catcher in the rye
quote of the day: gena on john
“i was a woman with a plan. i knew the only thing, that could’ve really stopped me, in my opinion, was to fall in love.
i went in, at lunch, to put my books in the locker and i got to the doorway and … i saw john cassavetes, and i thought : oh, oh damn! no, no, no. no!
that’s just exactly what i don’t want.”
-gena rowlands on meeting her husband, john cassavetes
and the most important happens when you least expect it. for h. by sv
Gerhard Richter on priests or philosophers
“there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.” – quote by gerhard richter by dd
quote of the day
“the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
-william shakespeare, julius caesar, act i scene ii
quote of the day
“the greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.”
– thomas aquinas
quote of the day
“laughter is an affection arising from the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing.”
—immanuel kant, 1790
quote of the day
“i don’t know. poets are always taking the weather so personally. they’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
-j.d. salinger, teddy
quote of the day
“i used to advertise my loyalty and i don’t believe there is a single person i loved that I didn’t eventually betray.”
-albert camus, “the fall”
