December 5, 2012
"And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."

—

excerpt from John Steinbeck’s response to his eldest son Thom’s 1958 letter, in which the teenage boy confesses to have fallen desperately in love with a girl named Susan while at boarding school.  (via evoketheforms)

I’ve probably reblogged this before. I will probably reblog it again.

9:26pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7yYlqAZk
(View comments) 
(Notes: 6)
  
Filed under: john steinbeck advice doing it right love 
November 30, 2012
theparisreview: “Literature is not different from life, it is part of life. And for someone like myself, The Odyssey is as much a part of nature as the Aegean.” —John Hollander

theparisreview:

“Literature is not different from life, it is part of life. And for someone like myself, The Odyssey is as much a part of nature as the Aegean.” —John Hollander

6:39pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7yYOFOa-
(View comments) 
(Notes: 82)
  
Filed under: john hollander the odyssey homer literature poetry life nature epics art doing it right 
November 13, 2012
nevver: The Perfect Martini

nevver:

The Perfect Martini

2:17pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7yXCy_lI
(View comments) 
(Notes: 5,915)
  
Filed under: drankin' martinis whiskey doing it right 
September 20, 2012
"Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt."

— Zadie Smith on writing (and life)

(Source: , via explore-blog)

9:36pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7yTn9gFf
(View comments) 
(Notes: 138)
  
Filed under: zadie smith doing it right 
September 5, 2012
explore-blog: Johnny Cash’s to-do list. Also see John Lennon’s, and Umberto Eco on the list as the origin of culture.

explore-blog:

Johnny Cash’s to-do list. Also see John Lennon’s, and Umberto Eco on the list as the origin of culture.

2:12pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7ySqSKmo
(View comments) 
(Notes: 578)
  
Filed under: johnny cash to-do list doing it right goals 
July 8, 2012
shortformblog: Six-year-old Zachary, who is fighting leukemia, had a wish: ”To meet and become Hellboy.” Fortunately, Ron Perlman was available. (ht Micah Pearson) God, I love that guy.

shortformblog:

Six-year-old Zachary, who is fighting leukemia, had a wish: ”To meet and become Hellboy.” Fortunately, Ron Perlman was available. (ht Micah Pearson)

God, I love that guy.

(via paulscheer)

4:32pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7yOyYn3Q
(View comments) 
(Notes: 1,231)
  
Filed under: ron perlman hellboy doing it right simply the best 
June 27, 2012
"

WHAT I WON’T MISS

Dry skin
Bad dinners like the one we went to last night
E-mail
Technology in general
My closet
Washing my hair
Bras
Funerals
Illness everywhere
Polls that show that 32 percent of the American people believe in creationism
Polls
Fox TV
The collapse of the dollar
Bar mitzvahs
Mammograms
Dead flowers
The sound of the vacuum cleaner
Bills
E-mail. I know I already said it, but I want to emphasize it.
Small print
Panels on Women in Film
Taking off makeup every night

WHAT I WILL MISS

My kids
Nick
Spring
Fall
Waffles
The concept of waffles
Bacon
A walk in the park
The idea of a walk in the park
The park
Shakespeare in the Park
The bed
Reading in bed
Fireworks
Laughs
The view out the window
Twinkle lights
Butter
Dinner at home just the two of us
Dinner with friends
Dinner with friends in cities where none of us lives
Paris
Next year in Istanbul
Pride and Prejudice
The Christmas tree
Thanksgiving dinner
One for the table
The dogwood
Taking a bath
Coming over the bridge to Manhattan
Pie

"

—

Lists of Note remembers Nora Ephron through her lists, from the last pages of her final book, I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections.

Also see Ephron’s most timeless words on love, life, death,  and reading.

(via explore-blog)

(Source: , via explore-blog)

3:56pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7yOF43FM
(View comments) 
(Notes: 172)
  
Filed under: nora ephron rip doing it right 
June 13, 2012
"If we could just have the kitchen and the bedroom, that would be all we need."

— Julia Child (via austinkleon)

(via austinkleon)

8:15pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7yNLmKGj
(View comments) 
(Notes: 152)
  
Filed under: julia child love doing it right 
June 6, 2012
"Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything."

— Ray Bradbury. (via neil-gaiman)

(Source: journal.neilgaiman.com, via neil-gaiman)

5:07pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7yMu8muR
(View comments) 
(Notes: 11,224)
  
Filed under: ray bradbury rest in peace romanticism doing it right 
May 24, 2012
I would like or reblog every single one of these, if I just had the spine to BELIEVE IN SOMETHING FOR ONCE.

I would like or reblog every single one of these, if I just had the spine to BELIEVE IN SOMETHING FOR ONCE.

10:58am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZbAK7yM37yxM
(View comments) 
(Notes: 637)
  
Filed under: benjamin dewey tragedy series art comedy doing it right 
Liked posts on Tumblr: More liked posts »