August 2012
55 posts
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
– Dorothy Parker (via adrianoesteves)
July 2012
42 posts
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“Waiting for someone who’s late on a second date. I know there are all sorts of...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“News stats out tonight confirm what we’ve seen in our sidewalks all over the...”
– Brian Williams
“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural...”
– Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree (via emotional-algebra)
“I don’t want to live – I want to love first and live incidentally.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald’s 1919 love letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, shortly before their wedding, found in Letters of a Nation. (via explore-blog)
“Buddhism as a faith for the afterlife, and Shintoism as a set of principles and...”
– A Moveable Feast (Travel Literature) by Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, Mark Kurlansky
“When we launched AOL 4.0 in 1998, AOL used ALL of the world-wide CD production...”
– Reggie Fairchild, product manager for AOL 4.0 (via evangotlib)
“A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an...”
– Prabal Gurung (via sunsets-photographs)
“English seem quite happy to highlight our country’s perceived downside, while...”
– Drink, Dear Boy? by Alwyne Chappell
“I love fresh crusty French bread, but the crusty freshness has a very short...”
– Drink, Dear Boy? by Alwyne Chappell
“it has never ceased to amaze me just how much information can be exchanged...”
– Drink, Dear Boy? by Alwyne Chappell
“that most treasured item revered by all small-boat-owners: the key to the toilet...”
– Drink, Dear Boy? by Alwyne Chappell
“Back in the cockpit he held out his right hand for shaking and with his left he...”
– Drink, Dear Boy? by Alwyne Chappell
“A map is a diagram of interest and expectation.”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“One of the obliquely good things about America is that outside of New York,...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“an old subeditors’ rule that says never write a headline that’s a question: it...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“Hemingway pointed out that Paris is a moveable feast. That wherever you went in...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“….when you come from the land of Anglicanism, which is no more than...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“I have never been to a party I didn’t think could be improved by fewer people.”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“I can always tell thesaurus writing. It has a spongy overstuffed pout, a...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“The lesson is, if you want to increase your vocabulary, don’t read more, get out...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“The most important decisions are what you choose not to do, not to see, not to...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“The secret to an exciting, accomplished and memorable life is judicious editing.”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“Then your bag first on the carousel after a 12-hour flight. That’s almost as...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“in Moscow, they understand the lesson of capitalism, the true nature of the...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“In short, are some people more suited to collectivism and some to individualism?”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“…what I particularly love is a beach with shells. I don’t quite know why...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
“There is a seaside global truth that says the worst bodies wear the smallest...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
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“I’ve been incubating about the shape of the world. Countries that’ve been...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
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“Ideally we would like to move at a leisurely pace through a town where everyone...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
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“The Slow Food and Slow City movements speak to a terrible yearning of urban...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
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“If you’re one of those well-balanced people who think that psychoanalysis is...”
– Here and There: Collected travel writing by A. A. Gill
