November 2010
8 posts
“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
—John Waters (via liquidnight)
October 2010
23 posts
“All that men have written about women should be suspect, for they are at once the judge and the party.”
—Poulain de la Barre
“It is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.”
—Oscar Wilde (via quotestheywrote)
“I want translations with copious footnotes, footnotes reaching up like skyscrapers to the top of this or that page so as to leave only the gleam of one textual line between commentary and eternity.”
—Nabokov
