September 2011
60 posts
All I wanted then was for everything to go on as before, so that I could stay...
– Anna Kavan
The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a...
– John Cheever
I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be...
– John Cheever
Every man, and every woman, is a star
– Aleister Crowley, from ‘The Book of The Law”
You think I don’t appreciate art? You think I don’t understand...
– Andy, from Todd Solondz movie ‘Happiness’
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Suddenly I notice that one car has selected me as its prey and is making...
– Anna Kavan, from ‘Julia and the Bazooka- Short Stories’
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You’re hopelessly intellectualized. You’ve thought all your emotions out of...
– from ‘a stranger still’ by anna kavan [1935] (via literarysasquatch)
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...
– Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Bell Jar’
I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t...
– Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Bell Jar’