Bar crawl!!! (Taken with instagram)
1 week ago
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I want to be her most of the time
Source: theclotheshorseOMG, she’s fabulous.
Audrey Tautou photographed by Shayne Laverdiere for Marie Claire Russia
2 months ago
| Notes: 203
"She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris."
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via lana-michelle)
2 months ago
| Notes: 511
2 months ago
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"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. It has no job security of any kind, and depends mostly on whether or not you can, like Scheherazade, tell the stories each night that’ll keep you alive until tomorrow. There are undoubtedly hundreds of easier, less stressful, more straightforward jobs in the world. Personally, I can’t think of anything else I’d rather do, but that’s me.
If you want to be a writer, write. You may have to get a day job to keep body and soul together (I cheated, and got a writing job, or lots of them, to feed me and pay the rent). If you aren’t going to be a writer, then go and be something else. It’s not a god-given calling. There’s nothing holy or magic about it. It’s a craft that mostly involves a lot of work, most of it spent sitting making stuff up and writing it down, and trying to make what you have made up and written down somehow better. …
It does help, to be a writer, to have the sort of crazed ego that doesn’t allow for failure. The best reaction to a rejection slip is a sort of wild-eyed madness, an evil grin, and sitting yourself in front of the keyboard muttering “Okay, you bastards. Try rejecting this!” and then writing something so unbelievably brilliant that all other writers will disembowel themselves with their pens upon reading it, because there’s nothing left to write. Because the rejection slips will arrive. And, if the books are published, then you can pretty much guarantee that bad reviews will be as well. And you’ll need to learn how to shrug and keep going. Or you stop, and get a real job."
3 months ago
| Notes: 504
"I wondered if I could spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself."
- Miranda July (via uncocoro)
(via libraryland)
3 months ago
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In following the Picture A Day theme for this month, yesterday’s theme is “A Stranger.” I don’t have an image for today, but I do have a story.
Yesterday morning we were awoken at 6 a.m. by a neighbor screaming outside of our window at his former roommates who live a few floors above us. Apparently there was an altercation and he was asked to leave/kicked out. At 6 a.m. his necessary items that he was demanding be thrown down included his guitar, jacket and toliet paper.
After he was yelling for more than 10 minutes, we investigated… He was holding his guitar, had a jacket on, and perhaps had toliet paper in the bag he was holding. Rough night/morning for him, and an early morning for us.
