December 2011
93 posts
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath (via soulofawomanwascreatedbelow)
“People smoke, Dichter explained, because it is both a sign of virility and a...”
– In America in the 1930s a Viennese psychologist named Ernest Dichter implored advertisers to explore consumers’ unconscious desires. His insights revolutionised marketing and brought sex to advertising. (via theeconomist)
“Great art is horseshit. Buy tacos.”
– Charles Bukowski (via craigcraigcruiser)
i only take breaks from watching star trek to do...
bearona:
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell (via a-place-to-stand)
ghostsandonionskins:
It is said that Shakespeare wrote tragedies but I tell you I’ve read the stuff and the women are loved and the tables are full The rest is office politics by men with swords
There is ,however, one exception execution expelling my comfortable chair mockery
Ophelia unloved passionate need- they will find me too bloated among the reeds
“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is...”
– John Lennon (via charmainecardinal)
Poetbabble: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The... →
armenotti:
“Realize, Allen, that if all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn…
crimethinker:
If we replaced every prayer/ hope/ and regret
With an action/ just imagine/ where we would be.
I knew there was something fucked up about neti... →
no-choice.
crimethinker:
dapper—as—fuck:
fetuses don’t choose
to live. tragically they are
forced into this world.
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.”
– Mark Twain (via wordpainting)
“There is no point in fighting [Amazon] or explaining to them that we should be...”
– Ann Patchett, in an email to Richard Russo
[Amazon is also under a tremendous amount of lawsuits due to their “sharing books” policy which they performed without consent or agreement between Amazon and the authors.]
(via wordpainting)
