January 2012
21 posts
“This is so true that we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather,...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall (via sunrec)
itsbeenvery:
watching movies I love with friends is so stressful because I have such high hopes and if they don’t like it then I kind of resent them
521. More times than not, you will be judged by...
“Not only have I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what...”
– (via themanrepeller)
“One thing is as true as the other. My bravery has its limits, certainly, but so...”
– Roberto Bolaño
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via justinpoole)
Nobel Prize acceptance speech - William Faulkner
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose...