I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
Margaret Atwood (via kitty-en-classe)
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Splinters and Milkshakes: “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living...
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it…
Manuscript page of an unpublished Allen Ginsberg poem.
The very first recording of Allen Ginsberg (who once mistook Patti Smith for “a very pretty boy”) reading his epic poem “Howl,” 1956.
Pair with the reading list for Ginsberg’s class “The History of the Beats” and more wonderful vintage literary recordings.
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No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.
George R.R. Martin
[when asked if he was going to let any Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire characters live] (via quentynmartell)
[when asked if he was going to let any Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire characters live] (via quentynmartell)
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George R.R. Martin on writing women:
| Interviewer: | There's one thing that's interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from? |
| George R.R. Martin: | You know, I've always considered women to be people. |
Happy birthday to Maurice Sendak! Born on this day (June 10) in 1928
