I’m not sentimental―I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last―the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via nakedslate)(Source: papillary)
Via mundane
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“I kind of see love as this escape for two people who don’t know how to be alone.. […] People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing, but if you think about it, there’s nothing more selfish.”
— Jesse, Before Sunrise (1995)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf6r810Ozf1qcfba3o1_500.gif)
“I kind of see love as this escape for two people who don’t know how to be alone.. […] People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing, but if you think about it, there’s nothing more selfish.”
— Jesse, Before Sunrise (1995)
Feet on the ground separate SUCCESSFUL from AIRHEADS. On reaching heights, the former stretches while the latter floats.
– Usagi
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
– Graham Greene (via bookshavepores) Via stuff your eyes with wonderAbout me
capable but not eager. naturally insightful. frequently misunderstood. aloof and reserved. bored with mundane routine. no patience with inefficiency and confusion. wouldn't want to be anybody else.everything else is secondary.
