Youth isn't an affectation. Youth is an art.

May 1, 2012 • 124 notes • livelymorgue

March 23, 1960: It was a battle between man and pigeon on Park Avenue, where an agent from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tried to capture three pigeons trapped in the Union Carbide Building, new at the time. The agent, Tom Morton, was able to net only one bird. “Two pigeons that somehow had got built into the skyscraper, along with air conditioning and escalators, proved slicker than people,” the article read. Photo: Ernie Sisto/The New York Times

May 1, 2012 • 1 note

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you.

Hemingway’s letter of advice to F. Scott Fitzgerald

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April 30, 2012

Those who reform the world must show that they do not speak in the heat of wild impulse, their lives must be unstained by passionate error; they must be severe lawgivers to themselves. They must be religious students of the divine purpose with regard to man, if they would not confound the fancies of a day with the requisitions of eternal good. Their liberty must be the liberty of law and knowledge.

Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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