August 2012
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via seabois)
“Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.”
– Kobayashi Issa (via seabois)
“Art is a mystery.
A mystery is something immeasurable.
In so far as every...”
– e. e. cummings, “Foreword to an Exhibit: I” (1944)
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to...”
– Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (via seabois)
How teachers assume groups of three work: everyone does 1/3 of the work
How they actually work: One cunt does absolutely nothing, another person doesn't really understand but tries their best, and the third person ends up doing 70% of the work so that they don't fail.
“Why can’t I try on on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits best?”
– Sylvia Plath (via sleepystoryteller)
“She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”
– Angela Carter (via seabois)
