June 2013
2 posts
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.”
—David Foster Wallace, This is water (via pavorst)
May 2013
2 posts
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are ‘It might have been.’”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat’s Cradle (via aquaticwonder)
April 2013
6 posts
March 2013
10 posts
“‘If the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via pederost)
