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“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

heyoscarwilde:

I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.
The Darjeeling Limited illustrated by Phil Gibson

I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.

The Darjeeling Limited illustrated by Phil Gibson

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

(Source: nevver)

(Source: tsuru-aesthetic, via teachingliteracy)

He gets up from his chair and refills their glasses.
That’s it, he says. End of story. I admit it’s not much of a story.
I was interested, she says.
He shrugs and carries his drink over to the window. It’s dark now but still snowing.
Things change, he says. I don’t know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.
Yes, that’s true, only——But she does not finish what she started.
She drops the subject. In the window’s reflection he sees her study her nails. Then she raises her head. Speaking brightly, she asks if he is going to show her the city, after all.
He says, Put your boots on and let’s go.
But he stays by the window, remembering. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold, and where he’d go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.

Everything stuck to him, Raymond Carver

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heyoscarwilde:

I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum.
illustration by Phil Gibson :: via etsy.com

I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum.

illustration by Phil Gibson :: via etsy.com

De rarekiek, 1718, Willem van Mieris. Dutch Baroque Era Painter (1662 - 1747)

”She’s in love with a dead guy anyway.”

”She’s in love with a dead guy anyway.”