"The business of books is the business of life."
— George Whitman, proprietor of Shakespeare & Company, Paris
(via prettybooks)
May 19, 2013
May 18, 2013
"Without some framework, some resources, even your secret aspirations just curdled into sentimental bullshit."
— from The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
May 12, 2013
"…and wasn’t life full of layers and nuances, colored all kinds of shades of gray, and the way you felt about something when you were twenty or thirty or forty was not how you would feel about something when you were fifty or sixty or seventy—he was nearly seventy!—and if only he could explain to her that regret can come at any time in your life, when you least expect it, and then you are stuck with it forever."
— from The Middlesteins
May 4, 2013
"Time advanced in two ways at once: while the passage of years was profligate and mysterious, flattening their own youth from behind as insensibly as some great flaming wheel, still somehow those years were composed of days that could seem endless in themselves, that dripped capriciously like some torment of the damned."
— from The Privileges
April 29, 2013
"There were days, not too long past, days since Lizzie died, when he’d woken in the morning and had to decide, before he could speak to anybody, who he was and why. There were days when he’d woken from dreams of the dead and searching for them. When his waking self trembled, at the threshold of deliverance from his dreams."
— from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
April 28, 2013
The Modern Library’s reissues of Truman Capote classics
Beautiful.
April 26, 2013
"We are allowed to have more than one feeling at once,” said Kenneth. “We are human beings, not ants."
— from The Middlesteins
April 22, 2013
"It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation."
— from Wolf Hall
April 20, 2013
Milky Way, New Zealand
Photo: Stefan MutchThis was taken on the Otago Peninsula near Dunedin, New Zealand. I was hoping to capture some aurora activity. There was no aurora that night, but there was high humidity, so the light from the city was reflected over the entire sky, even though we were well away from the city. Instead of the usual gold or orange glow, the sky took on a red hue that was clearly visible to the naked eye.
Wow.
April 17, 2013
"All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics."
— Tom McCarthy, Remainder
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