Griping isn’t the same as creating something. Rebelling isn’t rebuilding. Ridiculing isn’t replacing. We’ve taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tag: quotation
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I wasn’t really aware of who [Rihanna] was so I had to double-check with my kids. […] So I’ve heard a few things. I think she varies a lot; she has a broad palette of different styles. But I have a soft spot for ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ because, after all, I am the bitch.
Mads Mikkelsen, interview with Ralph Jones
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via quotespile)
If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food.
Anthony Bourdain
We were young men together.
Saito, Inception
A plague on both your houses.
Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
“[Music] is the sound of people struggling to be human.”
— Matt Berninger
It begins with the birth of a new people, and the choices they’ll have to make, and the people they will decide to become.
Robert Ford, Westworld
“There was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detatched, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.”
— Daphne DuMaurier
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