December 2011
“Tell them need is an excuse for love. Tell them need prevails.
Tell them I...”
– Anne Sexton; Doors, Doors, Doors
“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
“And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it,...”
– Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
“I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just...”
– Charles Bukowski, Pulp
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...”
– Anais Nin
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human...”
– George Orwell, 1984
“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
– Emil Cioran
