February 2012
13 posts
“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one...”
– Nikki Giovanni (via katelizabeth)
nieuwe blogpost; mijn kennismaking met Jeanette... →
Paul Simon ; The Boy in the Bubble
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re:
DISTANTHEARTBEATS SAID: I’D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF THE BOOK WHEN YOU’RE DONE.
i finished it yesterday, and i loved it! i did read ‘oranges’ first (i ordered them at the same time, having a good feeling about the author which is your doing, i think), i just thought that was a good idea. i guess it was a good idea but like you said, it’s not that important. jeanette...
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from: why be happy when you could be normal?
“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I wasn’t floating on my little raft in the present; there were bridges that led over to solid ground. Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need. Literature is common ground. It is ground not...
“Food, fire, walks, dreams, cold, sleep, love, slowness, time, quiet, books,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, from Why I adore the night (via mirroir)
“The Internet has co-opted the word “browse” for its own purposes, but it’s worth...”
– The End of Bookstores, Nicole Krauss (via sunrec)
“She sat perfectly still, listening and looking always at the same spot. It...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out. (via mirroir)
January 2012
52 posts
Watchup above ; music mix including Clint Mansell, Peter Broderick, Hans Zimmer
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The Frames ; Song for Someone
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“.. to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”
– Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
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“We only begin to live when we conceive life as tragedy…”
– W.B. Yeats
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uit Schrijversdagboek 1, Virginia Woolf
“Waarom valt er in het leven niets te ontdekken? Iets waar je je vinger op kunt leggen en zeggen ‘dat is het’? Mijn neerslachtigheid is een tergend gevoel. Ik zoek: maar dat is het niet - en dat ook niet. Wat is het dan wel? En zal ik ‘het’ voor mijn dood nog vinden? Dan ineens (toen ik gisterenmiddag over Russell Square liep) zie ik de bergen in de lucht: de...
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson (via lostinthesounds)
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“Spring nights can be strange and unpredictable. They make you think we have...”
– Sunflower, Gyula Krúdy
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“I can’t resign myself to the fact that I live in order to die some day....”
– Sunflower, Gyula Krúdy
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“‘Spring!’ thought Miss Maszkerádi. ‘You are an idiot. I just...”
– Sunflower, Gyula Krúdy
“Geluk is het eerste woord. ’s Avonds laat in bed een vers boek openslaan. En dan zomaar vanaf pagina één meegevoerd worden naar een onbekende bestemming. Of meegenomen worden in een overtuigende redenering. Verleid worden door perfect gevormde zinnen vol beeldspraak. Of gewoon geïntrigeerd worden door een personage, een plek, een tijdperk. Probeer het. Het gaat vanzelf. Je voelt meteen of...
nieuwe blogpost: The Pleasures of Men →
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“.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she...”
– Sunflower, Gyula Krúdy
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'Why I Write', an essay by Joan Didion →
nieuwe blogpost: The Unbearable Lightness of Being →
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the unbearable lightness of being, milan kundera
“A year or two after emigrating, she (Sabina) happened to be in Paris on the anniversary of the Russian invasion of her country. A protest march had been scheduled, and she felt driven to take part. Fists raised high, the young Frenchmen shouted out slogans condemning Soviet imperialism. She liked the slogans, but to her surprise she found herself unable to shout along with them. She...
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an...”
– John Keats (via misswallflower)
papieren boeken lezen hot in 2012 →
geen onzinartikel, en ik hoophoop dat de man gelijk heeft.