September 2010
Watchhourglasss:
gardenofverses
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“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless...”
– (via monsta)
“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you...”
– Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Love's Not the Way to Treat a Friend
by Richard Brautigan
Love’s not the way to treat a friend.
I wouldn’t wish that on you. I don’t
want to see your eyes forgotten
on a rainy day, lost in the endless purse
of those who can remember nothing.
Love’s not the way to treat a friend.
I don’t want to see you end up that way
with your body being poured like wounded
marble into the architecture of those who make
bridges out of...
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blueruins:
The Velvet Underground & Nico ~...
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Last night I went to a party and I met a girl who seemed pretty cool and like, while I was too drunk at the time to criticize anyone for anything, today while reflecting in my sobriety, I remembered this conversation.
Me (after talking to this lesbro for like an hour): What's your name?
Girl: Well, everyone calls me Shorty.
Me: ... What's your real name.
Girl: It's Jessica.
Me: Okay, nice to meet you, JESSICA.
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Just so i know..Tell Me →
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Attention Poets:
rainbowtrousers:
Stop using the word ache to represent emotional pain. It’s overdone.
so physical pain is still a go?
i have aches and painz :{
“It makes me weep to feel the movement of your flesh beneath my palms as you...”
– David Wojnarowicz
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Philip K. Dick first came up with the idea for his...
Dick had been granted access to archived World War II Gestapo documents in the University of California at Berkley, and had come across diaries written by S.S. men stationed in Poland, which he found almost unreadable in their casual cruelty and lack of human empathy.
One sentence in particular troubled him: “We are kept awake at night by the cries of starving children.”
Dick...
Although Philip K. Dick saw only the opening 20...
he was extremely impressed, and has been quoted by Paul Sammon as saying,
“It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly.”
However neither Ridley Scott nor screenwriter David Webb Peoples actually read Dick’s novel.
While the film is loosely based on Philip K....
the title comes from a book by Alan Nourse called “The Bladerunner”. William S. Burroughs wrote a screenplay based on the Nourse book and a novella entitled “Blade Runner: A Movie.”
Ridley Scott bought the rights to the title but not the screenplay or the book. The Burroughs composition defines a blade runner as “a person who sells illegal surgical...
Memories
Deckard: Remember when you were six? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. You were going to play doctor. He showed you his, but when it got to be your turn you chickened and ran; you remember that? You ever tell anybody that? Your mother, Tyrell, anybody? Remember the spider that lived outside your window? Orange body, green legs. Watched her build a web all summer, then one day there's a big egg in it. The egg hatched...
Rachael: The egg hatched...
Deckard: Yeah...
Rachael: ...and a hundred baby spiders came out... and they ate her.
Voight-Kampff Test
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...
Leon: Tortoise? What's that?
Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire...”
– Blade Runner (1982)
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100 Best First Lines from Novels - American Book... →
peterwknox:
They forgot Fear and Loathing (“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”)
But, still a pretty good list.
“Iridium Blossoms
and me, nervous, laughing
at the foot of the stair
after...”
“How did it get so late so soon?
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is...”
– Dr. Seuss (via oceanofstars)
It's Not So Bad: i said please →
I want: 78° weather
no rain
ragged tanktops, socks
windows open
homemade smoothies
room without clutter, a useful clutter corner
sunshine and tea with big dallops of honeymelting in the middle
long hair, growgrowgrow, tumbling copper
a river, the ocean, moving water
girls with beautiful…
