April 2012
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“They had many fine times together, fine talks between the loves of white nights, but always when he turned away from her into himself he left her holding nothing in her hands and staring at it, calling it many names, but knowing it was only the hope that he would come back soon”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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danielnolan:
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did...
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“I think there must exist a special subversive group of pseudo-cupids - plump hairless little devils whom Satan commissions to make disgusting mischief in sacrosanct places.”
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
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“Don’t you like martinis? They’re an acquired taste, like Ravel.”
- Humoresque (1946)
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I don’t think I’m tangible to myself. I mean, I think one thing today and I...
– Bob Dylan interviewed by David Gates for Newsweek (October 5, 1997)
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