“We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth.”
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Ray Bradbury (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
Ah, now see, I think Picasso is right: “art is the lie that leads us closer to the truth.”
January 2012
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Houdini (RAC Remix) - Foster the People
Let’s dance!
“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to wchich he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.”
—W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (via psychotherapy)
Bohemea: Life Lessons From Bo →
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1. Make Eye Contact
I cannot stress enough how important I feel it is to look someone in the eye. Everyone. From your loved ones to store clerks & bank tellers. Treat everyone like your equal. I also find eye contact immensely attractive. It shows you’re assured & open & I dig that.2. Remember…
Read them all! They are really, really important.
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
—Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (via bookmania)
Williamsburg seems to have forgotten about winter.
I am currently drinking iced tea, windows open, bare legged, considering taking the second nap of the day. If that doesn’t sound like summer, I don’t know what does.
