June 2010
“‘For a while’ is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At...”
– Murakami
“Age certainly hasn’t conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but...”
– Murakami
“A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This...”
– E.E Cummings
“Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the...”
– Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“She’s like Montana. If you want to get anywhere in Montana, you have to sit...”
– Ryan Gosling on Michelle Williams
“Life’s too chaotic. We all need to recede to have a peace of mind.”
– Dad; on life.
“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity...”
– Arnold Edinborough
“Writers don’t need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the...”
– On Writing, Raymond Carver
“Dave Eggers – according to Nick Hornby’s 31 Songs – has a theory that we listen...”
– Learning To Love Poetry Again, Stuart Evers
“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your...”
– (via erinpaula)
“I will race you to the waterside, and from the edge of Ireland shout out loud so...”
– Snow Patrol
“If a poem is concentrated, a closed fist, then a novel is relaxed and expansive,...”
– Sylvia Plath A Comparison, an essay (via whoanikki)
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...”
– Sylvia Plath (via tamktn)
“You eliminated what separated you and me to make what we are now. You have...”
– A very love-struck me back then. Still am.
“Challenge every notion that’s been spoon-fed to you, bring everything into...”
– Maisara
“Only the dead stay seventeen forever.”
– Haruki Murakami
Autobiography by Alfian Sa'at
Like most of us, I can’t remember how I was separated from my first love. (Did it die, did I break it, was it stolen Or did it fly out through the open window?) I didn’t even have radio-tuning parents Who filled the house with music Or instilled in me a “love of cinema”. I never recallled my mother coming home From the hairdresser’s with a new hairdo Or father...
