Professor Whitman: I would like - a Birthday Cake!
We are poor but we're happy.
I had half a sip of a wine cooler.
Nov 07
“That’s a falcon with a gun…now it’s a falcon with an erection.”
“ You know what your problem is, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and admit that yes, life’s a fact. People do fall in love and they do belong to one another because it’s the only chance anyone’s got at real happiness. You call yourself a ‘free spirit’, a ‘wild thing’, and you’re terrified someone’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well, guess what? You’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bound in the east by Somaliland or in the west by Tulip, Texas. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter how much you run, you’ll always run into yourself.
— Breakfast at Tiffany’s (via quote-book)
Nov 06
“ There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
— Henry David Thoreau (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
“ We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
— Pablo Picasso (via youmightfindyourself)
“ For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. I’m now told that this is not called “going to sleep” but rather “passing out,” a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgment.
A. Aubrey Bodine c. 1940
Nov 04
So I spent more time than I’d like to admit trying to find a higher-resolution image of this photograph, to little success. I do know that Bob Fitch took it when he was staff photographer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) of which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was president. But the point is that even heroes have heroes.
Nov 03
“ It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
— William Somerset Maugham (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
“ Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
— Marilyn Monroe (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
