F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Frank O’Hara, from “Poetry” in Collected Poems (via proustitute)
Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave, impartially.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
Viriginia Woolf, from Selected Diaries (via violentwavesofemotion)
Carl Jung (via ontheedgeofdarkness)
I read poems. I write. That is my destiny. Standing on the edge of the cliff about to fall into the abyss, I remember who I am. I am a young poet, a writer. I am here to make words. I have the power to pull myself back from death—to keep myself alive.
—bell hooks, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
it’s always 3:23 am on every clock in every house everywhere. little eskimo girls are bleeding 3:23 am right now. my heart is beating 3:23 am. there is a man across the street by the train, waiting to sell flowers to people who buy flowers at 3:23 am. i wonder if they are buying them for love or for forgiveness. -V.M. from “Please Do Not Die On Me: A Love Letter”
Let me just say this: I’m going to kiss you until my lips fall off. If my lips don’t fall off, I will kiss up your spine until I run out of spine. Then I’ll start over. by Gregory Sherl, “Notes On A Candy Cane Tree”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
Frank Bidart, from “The Third Hour of the Night” (via proustitute)
Anne Sexton, Killing The Spring (via ontheedgeofdarkness)
Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
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Albert Camus - “An Absurd Reasoning,” The Myth of Sisyphus (via ontheedgeofdarkness)