May 2012
100 posts
In order to hear, one must be willing to listen.
– The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (via fuckyeahgreatplays)
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...
– Oscar Wilde (via 4mbivalent)
Right now, I am in Fallujah. I am in Darfur. I am on Sixty-third and Park having...
– The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (via fuckyeahgreatplays)
Important works of art are active. They provoke different reactions depending on...
– Jan Svenungsson : ‘The Writing Artist’, in ‘Art & Research - A Journal of Ideas, Contexts and Methods’, Vol.2 No.2, Spring 2009
Thanks to yama-bato
(via chagalov)
Asian actors with no accents. Black actors with British accents. British plays...
– Qui Nguyen, on what off-Broadway needs now (via fuckyeahgreatplays)
More female playwrights and directors, and more people of color. Also: more...
– Young Jean Lee, on what off-Broadway needs now (via fuckyeahgreatplays)
Whereas the truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter...
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via even-a-small-love)
Some fall in love.
I shatter.
– Stephin Merritt (via atomiclanterns)
I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
– Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (via proustitute)
You write in order to change the world … if you alter, even by a millimeter, the...
– James Baldwin (via iamdamnwonderful)
the same should be said for all the arts.
nprmusic:
The Magnetic Fields’ frontman stops by the WFUV studio to perform his song “Your Girlfriend’s Face,” armed only with a ukulele. With Stephin Merritt handling the lead — and also walking out of the studio while playing — the song’s humor and wit shines through in a different way.
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be...
– Jeanette Winterson (via blackwhiteandcolour)
If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.
– John Waters (via trouve-moi) wise wise words even in these days of e-books, it’s not the same.
My last piece of advice is this simple… Persevere. Because nothing worthwhile is...
– President Obama, in his commencement address at Barnard College today (via barackobama)
Dark Lamb: “Love is not infatuation, it is not... →
darklamb:
“Love is not infatuation, it is not lust, it is not intellectual fascination, it is not deep friendship, it is not care and concern… it is all of those things, and so much more. To my mind, it is first and foremost trust and commitment—trusting another person with your heart… giving yourself to…