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  • September 24th, 2012 12:03pm

    What are we afraid of, as humans? Chaos. The outsider. We’re afraid of change. We’re afraid of disruption, and that is what I’m interested in.

    — Stephen King. Interview for the Paris Review. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

  • September 23rd, 2012 2:19pm

    He was sorry for her, but he no longer felt any affection for the girl who had been a wonderful part of his life for some time. Just as he had always shut his heart to other women who had betrayed him in the past, Bond forced Helena out of his life then and there.

    As he took out a cigarette and lit it, Bond wondered what was colder – the cruel realm of espionage that had victimized and ultimately destroyed Helena Marksbury, the icy summit of Kangchenjunga, or his own hardened heart.

    — James Bond: High Time To Kill by Raymond Benson

  • September 22nd, 2012 1:31am

    As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.

    — Haruki Murakami  (via runtitarun)

  • September 20th, 2012 11:00am

    Even now, my blood becomes feverish when I reflect upon those bygone days when Bruce and I were together. He ingeniously helped me to recapture the days I lost having been interned for five years in an American concentration camp for simply having been born of Japanese descent. I had just graduated from high school and Bruce provided me with a therapy of sorts – just being able to “hang out” and do some of the light-hearted, crazy things that I had missed out on and been deprived of during my internment. The bitterness, negativeness, and the feeling of complete inferiority that plagued me in the days before Bruce Lee came into my life, are – as a direct result of his teachings and my own willingness to apply them – now just water that has passed under the bridge. I realize now that there was a concealed, hidden enrichment that I gleaned from my experiences, both positive and negative, that has served to make me a better person today.

    — Taky Kimura (on his relationship with Bruce Lee)

  • September 18th, 2012 6:45pm

    It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all of the living and the dead.

    — James Joyce – “The Dead” Dubliners.

  • September 18th, 2012 6:23pm

    He told his hearers that he was there that evening for no terrifying, no extravagant purpose; but as a man of the world speaking to his fellow-men.

    — James Joyce – “Grace” Dubliners.

  • September 13th, 2012 3:00pm

    I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

    — Michelle Pfeiffer (via michellepfeiffercatwoman)

  • September 12th, 2012 9:38pm

    Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

    — George Orwell, 1984  (via onemeandean)

  • September 11th, 2012 10:07am

    I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

    — Henry James (via darbari)

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