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Drake's Diary: Sixteen Stylish Maxims for the New Year

drakes-london:

Style and taste are a particular sort of intelligence, and vice versa.

Aesthetic judgments rarely transcend the culture of the judge.

The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. Which is…

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neil-gaiman:

It’s nice to see a New Year’s Wish rendered as a poster…

neil-gaiman:

It’s nice to see a New Year’s Wish rendered as a poster…

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millionsmillions:

“In Britain these days ‘respect’ is the most debased word in the English  language; each year numerous murders result from the notion that the  perpetrators had been treated with insufficient respect by someone whom  they promptly stabbed. The same thing has been going on in America  where, I’m guessing, the verb ‘to diss’ originated.”
— Geoff Dyer’s Year In Reading 2011
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millionsmillions:

“In Britain these days ‘respect’ is the most debased word in the English language; each year numerous murders result from the notion that the perpetrators had been treated with insufficient respect by someone whom they promptly stabbed. The same thing has been going on in America where, I’m guessing, the verb ‘to diss’ originated.”

Geoff Dyer’s Year In Reading 2011

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writersatwork:

Allen Ginsberg (shot by Anton Corbijn)

writersatwork:

Allen Ginsberg (shot by Anton Corbijn)

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"Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."

- Isaac Asimov (via garptwo)
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oldloves:

Family album snapshot of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and his wife Zelda sitting outside on lawn at her mother’s home, January 1921. 

oldloves:

Family album snapshot of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and his wife Zelda sitting outside on lawn at her mother’s home, January 1921. 

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Want.

Want.

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