February 2011
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I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you...
– Tom Stoppard.
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Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You...
– You should date an illiterate girl.
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Finally, what The Ramones wanna and what The... →
At last, my undying love of pie charts married to my favorite bands. (Via ideasareawesome.)
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Shutter Island: An Argument for Sanity. MY MIND IS BLOWN.
And this reminds me that this really was my favorite new film of last year.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be...
– Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder.”
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In honor of his birthday, my favorite Cary Grant...
His Girl Friday, (1940)
Arsenic and Old Lace, (1944)
Notorious, (1946)
North by Northwest, (1959)
Bringing Up Baby, (1938)
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A woman who has a sense of humour possesses no refuge from the merciless truth...
– L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs.
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Pulp paper never dreamed of posterity and most of it must be a dirty brown color...
– Raymond Chandler.
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If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: The past does not...
– Anthony Robbins
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PBS American Masters: Jeff Bridges.
He seems so genuinely happy and creative and inspired by the world. He should start his own religion. Or maybe he kind of already has.
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Question
So I hear this life business must in fact go on, even with broken hearts. How does that work, exactly? I’m skeptical.
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‘Oh, and do you remember—’ she added ‘—a conversation we once...
– It really was.
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In which we consider scientific testing
With age has come two important realizations for me: 1) that there are many essential things I was right about in the first place, and 2) that even if I were right in the beginning (which I understand now I was), I still needed to go through the work of learning it before I could live it. It’s a seemingly strange thing that makes more sense the more I think about it.
It’s like testing...
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