October 2011
I’ve been married for five years. To the same woman. I’ve wanted to divorce her...
– from “I Am Suing Kim Kardashian” by Rob Delaney (via ljm)
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
– Leo Tolstoy
To keep giving people, the single-digit percentage of people, books they’d value...
– Jonathan Frazen to Lev Grossman on “What’s the novelist’s job?”
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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October - Frederick Seidel It is time to lose your life, Even if it isn’t over. It is time to say goodbye and try to die. It is October. The mellow cello Allee of trees is almost lost in sweetness and mist When you take off your watch at sunrise To lose your life. You catch the plane. You land again. You arrive in the place. You speak the language. You will live in a new house, Even if it is old....
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We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each...
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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Noah Baumbach developing Jonathan Franzen's The... →
“…And though it’s still only in the development stage, Noah Baumbach has already co-written a script with Franzen and is also attached to direct, a dream team united by their mutual love of deeply unhappy people. Also, Anthony Hopkins is apparently interested in playing the family patriarch, though his involvement at this point is still just a rumor. You can now place your bets on...
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I hadn’t been to therapy in over 2 months until this morning and every time I take a break (this time, unplanned) and then go back, I’m almost immediately reminded how helpful it actually is to go. You’d think that, as a therapist, I wouldn’t need to be reminded of that fact so often, but despite spending my days helping others, I’m always getting in the way of...
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It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives...
– Carl Jung
There are seconds, they only come five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Wow, how did I miss out on Spotify? It’s maybe the best thing ever, and I can get rid of at least half of the music on my hard drive (not to mention saving money on records I buy that end up being not worth owning a couple of months later).
Thank you, internet.
The Mountain Goats latest record, All Eternals... →
you won’t find a better deal online today.
There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you...
– Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table
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https://twitter.com/arnettwill/status/1206200839230... →
Will Arnett confirms new EPISODES and an Arrested Development movie in 2013!!!!
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