Saturday January 26, 2013 at 0:20
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Cecil Beaton, Paula Gellibrand, the Marquesa de Casa Maury (1928)
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Saturday January 26, 2013 at 0:17
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Eartha Kitt as Catwoman 1960’s
Yes.
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Wednesday January 09, 2013 at 9:46
216 notes“It matters, because everything we say
Of the past is description without place, a cast
Of the imagination, made in sound;
And because what we say of the future must portend,
Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be
Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.”
— Wallace Stevens, from “Description Without Place” (via the-final-sentence)
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Wednesday January 09, 2013 at 9:45
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Literary Birthday - 9 January
Happy Birthday, Simone de Beauvoir, born 9 January 1908, died 14 April 1986
Simone de Beauvoir: Nine Quotes
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[…].
(What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. She was a schoolteacher, and an editor, with Jean-Paul Sartre, of Les Temps Modèrnes. Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is best known for She Came to Stay, The Mandarins, and The Second Sex.
by Amanda Patterson from Writers Write](http://24.media.tumblr.com/3e57b11e2c4b74067f4d6e250b528721/tumblr_mfr0s6czpC1rnvzfwo1_400.jpg)
Literary Birthday - 9 January
Happy Birthday, Simone de Beauvoir, born 9 January 1908, died 14 April 1986
Simone de Beauvoir: Nine Quotes
- If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
- Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
- I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
- When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[…].
- (What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)
- A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
- The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
- I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
- I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. She was a schoolteacher, and an editor, with Jean-Paul Sartre, of Les Temps Modèrnes. Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is best known for She Came to Stay, The Mandarins, and The Second Sex.
by Amanda Patterson from Writers Write
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Tuesday November 27, 2012 at 15:35
159 notes“To be a reader … is really to be a writer of one’s life, to try to shape one’s life in the image of the values promoted by what one reads.”
— Adam Kirsch on life and letters, echoing William Gibson’s notion of “personal microculture.” Strengthen your own relationship with reading and writing here. (via explore-blog)
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Wednesday September 07, 2011 at 21:42
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Of course, Marie Antoinette wants her own Macbook Pro as well ;)
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Thursday July 14, 2011 at 22:39
426 notes“Music: the breathing of statues. Perhaps:
the silence of paintings. Language where
language ends.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “On Music,” 1918, trans. Robert Bly (Thank you, proustitute)
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Thursday July 14, 2011 at 22:38
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I had a dress verY like this in my dress up box as a kid.(via Dilly Dallas)
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Thursday July 14, 2011 at 22:36
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(via i am a greedy girl.)
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