February 2012
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“I hate purity. I hate goodness. I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I...”
– 1984 by George Orwell
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“Last time we went swimming
the sea stood up and hugged you
as though you were...”
– “Drown” by Bianca Stewart
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theloupgaroux asked: Love your (new?) icon
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“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.”
– William Shakespeare
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human-racing asked: your 1914-1945 blog is my absolute favorite blog ever ever. where do you find all of those images?
cindersandstars asked: Hello there :) I know this is very late, but the list you made of WWI & WWII movies (which is FANTASTIC by the way!), I was thinking the darling movie "A Little Princess" would be a great addition to your WWI list. And your blog is so, so delightful, I've obviously been looking through all of your posts - thank you for creating this corner of beauty and history. It's like...
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“There’s no sense to being Irish unless you know the world is going to break your...”
– Thomas Adcock (via honeychurch)
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I’ve just come across some of my old poems (mostly laughably bad) but this one is making (albeit obvious) allusions to Tamlin, Samson and Delilah, a couple Shakespeare plays and Wuthering Heights but it’s actually decent. I mean, it’s not great, but it’s not bad either! Way to go younger me, you’d make T. S. Eliot vaguely proud.
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“History repeats itself. Somebody says this.
History throws its shadow over the...”
– Little Beast by Richard Siken
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“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
– Albert Camus (via honeychurch)
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The 2011 Black List of Unproduced Screenplays →
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“You go into the arena alone. The lions are hungry for you.”
– Gone with the Wind
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“First of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again”
– Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
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“We are all of us secret agents, undercover in our overcoats,
the snow falling...”
– Anyway by Richard Siken
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“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it...”
– The Ballad Of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
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