February 2012
[…] there is this existential loneliness in the real world. I don’t know what...
– David Foster Wallace
(via clementina)
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Waitress (2007) →
brightwalldarkroom:
by Elizabeth Grant Thomas
When a friend of mine, a fellow new mother, started a blog about “making pies and raising Baby,” I asked her if she had seen the film Waitress. When she said she hadn’t, I gushed: “Oh, you have to! It’s about this woman who finds out she’s pregnant, and she…
I asked Elizabeth, a friend of mine from high school, to write a piece for BWDR,...
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Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of...
– Gustave Flaubert (to Louise Colet)
I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand!
– E.B. White
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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January 2012
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Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I...
– Jonathan Franzen doesn’t like ebooks
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The Desiderata, Max Ehrmann (1927)
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with...
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
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Why is it snowing again? Like, a lot. Today was supposed to be the rain-that-washed-the-snow-away day, all my favorite weathermen said so!
Five straight days stuck inside the house is officially long enough, world.
Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self.
– Tom Bissell (via mythologyofblue)
So so so true. It’s one of the only consistent ways I’ve ever found to shut down the interior monologue.
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He who has been delivered from pain must not think he is now free again, and at...
– Albert Schweitzer, On the Edge of the Primeval Forest
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Area's First Big Snowstorm: Worst is Yet to Come... →
A winter weather system is socking Washington with a one-two-three punch this week, with as much as 7 inches expected in Seattle and other areas of the state by Tuesday and the heaviest snowfall due Wednesday.
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Oh well. I didn’t want to have a life for the next few days any way.
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filmprojections:
The first official trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, starring Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Frances McDormand, and more. The film will be released on May 25, 2012.