June 2011
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I have needed these songs more than anyone else and maybe sometimes even more...
– Ryan Adams (via labeledbones) (via letitride)
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions, their...
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1897 (via oscarwildequotes)
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I don’t try to be prophetic, as I don’t sit down to write literature. It is...
– James Baldwin (via theparisreview)
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bathtubginrummy:
Yeah and they killed Joe Hill, put a bullet to his name But that bullet made a martyr of the slain
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“Beauty plus pity — that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.”
-Vladimir Nabokov
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…actually in the moment of composition I don’t necessarily know what it means,...
– Allen Ginsberg (via xcdave)
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I ask Allen if he agrees with the lines he wrote for Gertrude Stein in the film,...
– Woody Allen to Scott Foundas, LA Weekly
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
– Cormac McCarthy, “No Country For Old Men” (via invertedcommas-)
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Moving Day
Performed by Arthur Collins
Words by Andrew B. Sterling
Music by Harry von Tilzer
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
– Jack Kerouac (via)
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People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via liquidnight)
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It may be more a matter of how we hear than what people are singing.
– Greil Marcus
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