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
“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our...”
– John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit