“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
Reblogged from Paint me a palace.
Source mols
“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
(via prettybooks)
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
“We live in a world where every single one of the more than 500 television episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ has a well-researched Wikipedia article devoted to it, but by comparison there is practically no information about many of the greatest artworks of the 20thcentury,” said Richard McCoy, a member of the conservation group and a founder of WikiProject Public Art. “This project can serve as a model and demonstrate the importance of documenting contemporary art while highlighting the significance of one of America’s most renowned artists.”
Reblogged from Absolument Moderne
(via yahighway)
Source absolumentmoderne
“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed—would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”
Reblogged from DIZZY'S BOOKSHELF
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Don’t follow, lead.
Don’t copy, create.
Don’t start, finish.
or even,
Don’t sit still, move.
Don’t fit in, stand out.
Don’t sit quietly, speak up.
Not all the time, sure, but more often.
”“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”
“In the case of voice-to-text technologies, however, all writing becomes a kind of rehearsal for verbal interaction. In this light, an important effect of computerized dictation technologies is that they could lead people to become more skillful speakers, and thus more thoughtful participants in meaningful discussions. If writers of the future are composing text almost exclusively through computerized dictation, then they may become more thoughtful and nuanced speakers in the process. That is, the effect of dictation technologies may not be just on our writing, but that they may train us to be better verbal communicators, not just with our machines but with our fellow humans too.”
(via teachingliteracy)
Source The Atlantic
(via teachingliteracy)
Source tigersvision
“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.”
(via the-dandy-highwayman)
