The Body of B. Franklin Printer; Like the Cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and Amended By the Author.

"TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation ( Read more... )

"They can't touch you if you talk forever"

"I actually realized that I was somebody important, because I caught the attention of 60,000 people, plus the whole world watching a guy that if you reverse time back 15 years ago, I was sitting under a mango tree without 50 cents to pay for a bus."

"With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future."
Yohji Yamamoto

"In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities."
Charles Manson

I always feel weird quoting him because it makes me seem like that kind of gross person, but a nice sentence is a nice sentence is a nice sentence.

"Surely the worm is long within the bone before the flesh is loosed?"
D. Markson

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These have been sitting in my room for months. I bought two pairs impulsively to make sure at least one would fit.

STACY SCHIFF: There is a real sort of wonderful Russian sense of this was meant to be about the Nabokovs, which immediately is conveyed upon their meeting in Berlin in 1923 in his poetry, and immediately starts talking about fate and the two of them coming together. And it's pretty much carried through throughout the life, so that almost after 50 ( Read more... )

“You are absolutely fucking tragic. These drawings are repulsive… And you. Yes, you. You look like you’re looking down on me. You might think I’m a fat twat, but go around with body language like that and you’ll never get a job… What’s this? Jane Birkin is your muse? And she’d wear a velvet babygro with a fucking teddy bear on it, would she?… Why ( Read more... )