Not going gently over the hill . . .

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Russian Ark, Alexander Sokurov, 2002

[49wasagreatyear]

[aboutoriginality]

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[msmarymillspaulos]

P.J.O’Rourke

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

[golftangohotel]

Always worth a reblog.

[aboutoriginality]

[dailyclassicart]

Tsuchiya Koitsu - "Evening at Ushigome" (1939)

[culturaloffering]

"Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them."

William F. Buckley, Jr.

[barbariankingdom]

(via Home / X)

[infanteriesauvage]

"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."

Robert A. Heinlein

[married-to-a-redhead]

"Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better." - Ray Bradbury

[supernurse716]

[infanteriesauvage]

[bearwithh]

[themaninthegreenshirt]

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till."

J.R.R. Tolkien

[kstripling]

[peony911]

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[married-to-a-redhead]

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”

― Carl Sagan

[literaturewoman]

"Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness."

—Leo Tolstoy