July 2009
7 posts
“Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again.”
—Woolf
“As Rilke said to his young poet, if you want to know the right course of action, just ask yourself: what is the hardest thing to do?”
—Diary of an Addict
“Of course, what is quite evident for me is that my last resort in all this turmoil was language.”
—Herzog
June 2009
34 posts
“A screaming comes across the sky.”
—Pynchon
“Faggot is becoming the new nigger.”
—Joe Rogan
“The body in the throes of death; the body in the throes of sex—these things easily fascinate us.”
—On Beauty
“I just met a wonderful new man. He’s fictional but you can’t have everything.”
—Via Luminol
“My role now is some noble savage, some person who has risen to grace from some sort of strange beginnings.”
—Michael Thomas
“but the world isn’t going to end
on fire –
we will.” —“Dreamtalk”
on fire –
we will.” —“Dreamtalk”
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“Every evening I died and every evening I was born again, resurrected.”
—“Fight Club”
“Now I live in the zone all the time.”
—“Eastern Promises”
“Fuck the pyramid, fuck j-school, fuck writing for a living. Fuck your computer, fuck your rent, fuck whatever your parents said. Go and live. Go be in the world. Go push yourself until you cry and then go back for more and then write about it. Because that’s what real writers do. They don’t just write about it. They live it.”
—“Letter to a Young Writer”
“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”
—The Joker
“This is brilliant. RT @mtrazz: Not true about male writers being able to focus better. Do you know how much porn is on the web?”
—Susan Orlean
“‘What happened was the talent didn’t want to use condoms.”
—HIV
“When the sun finally set, the boy and I went our seperate ways, and all I could think about on the ride home was what it was to be that age and think you had all the problems in the world, the downtrodden everyman at 21, without irony.”
—Sarah Scott
“[T]he older you get the more these things float to the surface.”
—Soldier Turned Artist
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”
—Lacan
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“I prayed there for the novel I was working on, not for my bones, which I care about less.”
—O’Connor
“Scene investigation by the coroner revealed a “large amount of very weird, weird magazines” with evidence that the victim had masturbated before shooting himself.”
—Russian Roulette
May 2009
40 posts
“I am a big fan of clothing, and beyond that I am a big fan of skin; both serve to hide things from my sight that I just don’t want to see.”
—Answer Girl
“I was your only chance at happiness—now it’s over for you.”
—Wurtzel
“I need to bear witness to an uncertain event.”
—Enright
