February 2012
8 posts
Cat Power - Lost Someone (Jukebox, 2008)
“A day in which nothing bad happens is a miracle, a day in which all the things...”
– All Families are Psychotic, Douglas Coupland
“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were...”
– Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart...”
– Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
“When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it...”
– Henry Rollins, Black Coffee Blues
January 2012
16 posts
Ben E. King - Stand By Me (Don’t Play That...
“It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life...”
– From a letter by C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves
“When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it...”
– Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
“What do you fear? You fear being mediocre. You want to be great, you want to...”
– I’m Still Here, 2010
“Then when all the people went, it was no better. She continued plodding on, but...”
– D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.”
– Franz Wright, One Heart
“Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It...”
– The Last Kiss, 2006
“It’s starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be...”
– Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
December 2011
30 posts
“We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns....”
– All About Eve, 1950
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings...”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
“She read on and on, enraptured. She could not understand half, but it excited...”
– Antonia White, Frost in May
“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be...”
– Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
“I find liquor is an essential tool for social lubrication.”
– Kinsey, 2004
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (Life and Times,...
“I’m living on my memories like a cheap has-been. I’ve been sitting in this...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
“You know when you have a dream and you’re half-awake, but still in the fringe of...”
– Wanted, 2008
“One day I will pack my bags of books and paper. One day I will say goodbye to...”
– Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
“What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther...”
– The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood,...”
– Before Sunset, 2004