January 2012
302 posts
December 2011
167 posts
“I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
pg. 248
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“I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of...”
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“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you’re lucky enough to...”
– Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann (via wrists)
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NYPL Offers FREE Seminars for NYC Teachers →
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The Cullman Center Institute for Teachers is a dedicated program that offers opportunities for teachers to gain professional development and enrich their understanding of history and literature by attending seminars taught by the accomplished writers and scholars of NYPL’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Courses offered this Spring include: writing workshops for Fiction,...
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“Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. You know that in nine hundred...”
– The Doctor
everything-is-something asked: So I've always wanted to go to Paris/France in general. Is it truly as wondrous and amazing as it sounds?
2011 has been good to me. I transferred to my current university, my niece was born, I went to Paris, Hemingway and I became friends, and I now have an ukulele. In fact, this year has been fantastic, and I feel incredibly blessed.
Here’s to 2012! Let’s pray it’s even more fantasticallic!
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Demain dès l'aube
Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne,
Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends.
J’irai par la forêt, j’irai par la montagne.
Je ne puis demeurer loin de toi plus longtemps.
Je marcherai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées,
Sans rien voir au dehors, sans entendre aucun bruit,
Seul, inconnu, le dos courbé, les mains croisées,
Triste, et le jour...
focusflorianne asked: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris [as a young man,] then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you. For Paris is a moveable feast.”— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (I wouldn't be surprised if you've already seen this, but it reminded me of you so here it is. Happy Christmas!)
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Of Another Fashion: This is a photo of my... →
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This is a photo of my grandmother, Louise Seate Bowie, with her husband Clyde Bowie. They are pictured after an outing in Byrd Park in Richmond, Virginia (ca. 1940s). This is one of few photos I’ve seen of the two of them together, and I know few details about their relationship. I like to…
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Be fancy. Even if your fancy is wearing a skirt on a Tuesday, or treating yourself to a flavored cup of coffee. Even if your fancy is sitting in the garden for five minutes. Be fancy. Today, be fancy.
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“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quote-book)
“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via callmezeus)
Lemony Snicket used to do crazy things for my brain with his writing in middle school.
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Love, oh love, oh careless love, You fly though my head like wine You’ve wrecked the life Of many a poor girl And you nearly spoiled this life of mine Love, oh love, oh careless love, In your clutches of desire You’ve made me break a many true vow Then you set my very soul on fire Love, oh love, oh careless love, All my happiness bereft Cause you’ve filled my heart with weary old...