February 2012
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Clarissa had a theory in those days-they had heaps of theories, always theories,...
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via yesyes)
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I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to...
– Vita Sackville-West in a letter to Virginia Woolf, January 21st 1926
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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov via
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want ashes
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I didn’t even see American Beauty, because I knew it was going to be about this...
– Kathleen Hanna (via mellonhollie)
god I’m flashing back to how much I hated American Beauty when I saw it at like 16 and I don’t think I’ve felt that much anger at a movie since then but oh wait now I’m thinking about how much the end of Revolutionary Road pissed me off,...
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Lay yourself down on the restaurant floor
And recite all that’s been kept from...
– (via ahuntersheart)
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The Disadvantages of an Elite Education →
tamburina: “One of the great errors of an elite education, then, is that it teaches you to think that measures of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense. But they’re not. Graduates of elite schools are not more valuable than stupid people, or talentless people, or even lazy people. Their pain does not hurt more. Their souls do not...
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