May 2013
Joe Hill's Thrills: Papa Do Preach →
joehillsthrills:
emiliomurillo asks: Say, what are your thoughts on Hemingway?
I suppose I take the fairly conventional view that after Twain, he’s the most important figure in the history of American fiction. He roughly - heartlessly - divorced the novel from 19th century storytelling values, wrote…
“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone,...”
– Daphne du Maurier (via hip-)
Amazon's Kindle Worlds: Instant Thoughts →
neil-gaiman:
I’m with Scalzi on this.
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as...”
– Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher)
I could reblog/post this every day as a constant reminder.
(via notational)
And I’m sticking it up here for people who define the “good” in Make good art in ways that I definitely didn’t intend…
(via neil-gaiman)
twinnerd28:
beatleologist-at-221b:
actualcannibaljakeenglish:
How many tears did The Doctor cry?
A River.
Was it enough to fill two Ponds?
folie-a-tout:
heyaeya:
dameofspace:
pandyssian:
OH MY GOD APPARENTLY TAKING AN ARROW TO THE KNEE WAS AN OLD NORDIC SLANG FOR GETTING MARRIED
I THOUGHT THAT ALL THOSE GUYS IN SKYRIM HAD LITERALLY BEEN SHOT IN THEIR KNEES WITH ARROWS BUT I GUESS NOT
And at that moment, the foundation of that entire meme became something like this:
THAT EXPLAINS WHY MEN GO DOWN ON ONE KNEE WHEN THEY...
“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers...”
– Charles Bukowski (via sadsapling)
“And this is how we danced: our mothers’
white dresses spilling from our feet,...”
– “Home Wrecker,” Ocean Vuong (via commovente)
“Yet how strange is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings...”
– Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (via cerebralnausea)
“I love incorrectly
There is a solemnity in hands,
the way a palm will curve...”
– “The Confession of an Apricot,” Carl Adamshick (via commovente)
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: Took off my Crazypants →
joehillsthrills:
sleepyhollowjacks asks: I was reading your chain of tweets about Paxil and had a question. One of the conditions that medicine is reported to treat is OCD (I have that). But isn’t OCD a productive tool for the highly creative types? Weren’t you afraid it might hinder your…
“A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.”
– Lana Turner (via youngfolksociety)
“I hope you have a book like this, a book that makes you feel sane when other...”
– When a Book Gets Everything Right (via bookriot)
“One of my little boys just kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, please don’t...”
– RHONDA CROSSWHITE, sixth grade teacher at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, which was leveled by a tornado. She threw herself over students inside a bathroom stall as the storm passed, likely helping to save their lives.
Teachers. Among the best of us.
(via the New York Post)
