(Source: dominicbass, via themonicabird)
Joni: You dropped out of college?
Paul: Yeah, it just wasn't my thing.
Nik: Why's that?
Paul: It just seemed like massive waste of money after a while I was just sitting on my ass listening to people spout ideas I could have just as easily learned in a book.
Nik: Oh. Okay.
Paul: I'm not saying that I think higher learning uniformly blows. I think college is great for some people. Joni, I think you're going to love it. But I'm a doer. That's how I learn. I'm just weird that way I guess.
See the sad thing about a guy like you, is in about 50 years you’re gonna start doin’ some thinkin’ on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One, don’t do that. And two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin’ education you coulda’ got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.
— Will, Good Will Hunting
“Live out of your imagination, not out of your history.”
- Stephen R. Covey
She longed for a bookshelf of natural-colored wood, smooth to the touch and slick with wax.
— The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
— Flannery O’Connor on Ayn Rand
…she preferred women sexually, although she preferred men in all other ways.
— Elise Harris on Patricia Highsmith
All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (via monicadays)
(Source: accidentalism, via freakin-rican)
Indiana University researchers Debby Herbenick and Vanessa Schick found in a recent study that nearly 60 percent of American women between 18 and 24 are sometimes or always completely bare down there, while almost half of women in the U.S. between 25 and 29 reported similar habits.
— The New Full-Frontal: Has Pubic Hair in America Gone Extinct?
Lady Gaga is more an identity thief than an erotic taboo breaker, a mainstream manufactured product who claims to be singing for the freaks, the rebellious and the dispossessed when she is none of those.
—
Camille Paglia (via danielleyagodich)
I just like that Paglia said this. She knows her way around pop music like the inside of Madonna’s knickers—which is very, very well.
(via danielleyagodich)
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
— Susan Sontag
(Source: teachingliteracy, via byvirtueofyourgrace)
I became a point of concentration, icy and hot at the same time. When she began to babble those love words that meant she was about to come, my own thighs would shake sympathetically.
— “Monkeybites”, Dorothy Allison
