October 2010
Lies I've told my 3 year old recently
dilaudid:dandywolves:buyhercandy:tarts:
Trees talk to each other at night. All fish are named either Lorna or Jack. Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose. Tiny bears live in drain pipes. If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky. The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago. Everyone knows at least one secret language. When...
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“When we look at someone (an angel) from a position of unrequited love and...”
– Essays in Love, Alain de Botton (via okeydokeydoggiedaddy)
(via fuckyeahalaindebotton)
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“It’s that feeling when you hear your favorite song…that feeling whether you’re...”
– Julian Casablancas (via zestrokes) (via suzywire) (via rememo) (via theotherway)
VONNEGUT ON TIME AND SPACE
randomitus:
PLAYBOY: In some of your books—especially The Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse-Five—there’s serious notion that all moments in time exist simultaneously, which implies that the future can’t be changed by an act of will in the present. How does a desire to improve things fit with that?
KURT VONNEGUT: You understand, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.
...
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“KIDMAN: … I know Rob [Marshall] said it on Nine: that you’re otherworldly, that...”
– Nicole Kidman talking about Marion Cotillard during their interview for Interview magazine, August 2010 issue. (via hellyeahmarioncotillard)
“There comes a point when the world will stop rewarding potential and talent,...”
– Actor Tom Hardy on his potential, Men’s Health Magazine interview (August 2010) (via anti-deity) (via fuckyeahtomhardy)
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“In many ways I felt the work was done around me. I just drank lots of tea. I’d ask if there was anything I could do and they’d say: ‘Not really.’ So there was lots of tea for Tommy. Then they’d call me over and say: ‘Can you jump off this?’ I’d say: ‘Absolutely!’, then I’d just loiter in the corner looking fab.”—Tom Hardy
“I went for a walk
watched the cars go by
the sun was high
and so was I
I...”
– Best Coast - Sun Was High (via breakfastineurope)
ROBIN'S STAGES OF PROCRASTINATION
robin-sparkles:
STAGE ONE:
Feeling awesome. You receive the task/assignment. You decide to take care of it early so you don’t stress yourself out like every other time. You got this.
STAGE TWO:
Chillin’. You haven’t started working on it yet, but you’re thinking about it. That counts, right? There’s still time. You’re totally still gonna rock this shit.
STAGE THREE:
Limbo. The...
“A measure of how seldom we are able to say what we feel to people is how many...”
– Alain De Botton, Writer and Philosopher (via appl3pie)
vega-ofthe-lyre:simonamstell | dzadistic |...
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“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take...”
– Alain de Botton, in The Architecture of Happiness (via fuckyeahalaindebotton)
“Depression is a wasteland all of its own. No animation, no vivacity. The psyche,...”
– Wild: An Elemental Journey, Jay Griffiths
“How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. A...”
– Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (via colporteur) (via unicornology)
“If you meet a person who cares about the same obscure things you do, hold on to...”
– Frank Chimero (via unicornology)
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“At the end of hours of train-dreaming, we may feel we have been returned to...”
– Alain de Botton from “On Seeing and Noticing” (via derekwoods)
tumblingwithoutamat:
Addicted To Love (Robert...
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Who Lives There: The Pyramid Atop Seattle’s Smith... →
twistednuns:
So amazing, it’s giving me shivers!
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“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to explain to little girls, ‘Shhh, I’m...”
– Amy Adams (via charethcutestory | dandywolves | glendora | braincrack | fakemustache | magnetical | narcissas) (via vega-ofthe-lyre)
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