Raspberry Colored Cosmic Dawn

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[theearlofgrey-blog]

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”

— Richard Siken, Crush (via cosive)

[teenagekicksandgramophones-blog]

““On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that’s not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.””

— — Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

[nowownomore-blog-blog]

[raspberrycoloredcosmicdawn]

nowownomore:

‘I always wanted to be pretty. I wanted to look like the girl they called the town tramp. She wore tight clothes, too much make-up and had big yellow hair. I thought she was the prettiest thing I’d ever seen. People would say “oh, she’s just trash’, and I’d reply, “well, that’s what I’m going to be when I grow up. Trash.’“

                                                                 -Dolly Parton

[extinguished]

“I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides  (via cosive)

[misswallflower]

“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.”

— Jean Rhys

[kny111]

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

— Dr. Seuss

[explore-blog]

““If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal — that is your success.””

— Henry David Thoreau, born July 12, 1817, on defining your own success – a timeless, existentially necessary reminder.

[larmoyante]

“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.”

— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

[sadyoungliterarygirls]

“Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.”

— Alice Munro (via maza-dohta)

[prognosticationentrances]

petite maman, céline sciamma, 2021 

[sunstringslondon]

Sun and the moon. Huichol beadwork. Mexico.

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

Rainer Maria Rilke (via likeafieldmouse)

[newyorker]

I write because writing is the hardest work I’ve ever done. It is slow and painstaking and frustrating. I do not begin with an idea or a theme, and I don’t make outlines. I don’t have a plan for the ending or, usually, for the next page or the next line. Even short pieces might take shape over years. Everything that I have ever seen, done, or felt, had, shared, or lost, is in play, and the word of the day is, on most days, confusion.

Donald Antrim on living “The Unprotected Life” (via newyorker)

[benningtonstudents]

Today we discovered an archive of entry photos of Bennington students from the school’s founding until 1972. We’ve pulled some of our favorite images of stylish and somehow familiar looking Bennington faces. These ladies are from the 30s to the 60s, but could easily be current students. 

Can you spot a few famous alums in the mix?

 - Arden and Sam ‘16

[larmoyante]

I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about love and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself.

George Orwell, Why I Write (via larmoyante)

[thnkfilm]

“I get these moments when I have to lie down because everything feels sort of too much. I look up and I see the blue or the grey or the black, and I feel myself melting into it.”

The End of the F***ing World (2017)

[poboh]

Glittering Wet Beach (Biarritz), ca 1929, Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) - Gelatin silver print -