Rabolas's Blog: at sixes and sevens, page 313

"Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once."

“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.”

- Stephen King (via lifeofquotations)

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an..."

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

- George Orwell
(via wordpainting)

bookmania: A Writer’s Peculiarity. Hemingway likes to stand...

bookmania:

A Writer’s Peculiarity. Hemingway likes to stand while writing.

“A working habit he has had from the beginning, Hemingway stands when he writes. He stands in a pair of his oversized loafers on the worn skin of a lesser kudu — the typewriter and the reading board chest-high opposite him.” – Paris Review, 1958

"Ma se il senso della realtà esiste, e nessuno può mettere in dubbio che la sua esistenza sia..."

iosonorockmaballoiltango: Sorrise come soltanto i veri timidi sanno sorridere. Era il sorriso...

iosonorockmaballoiltango:

Sorrise come soltanto i veri timidi sanno sorridere. Era il sorriso strano, inconsueto, che sorge dall’abisso profondo, buio, più profondo di un pozzo, profondo come una miniera profonda, che è dentro di loro.

Ernest Hemingway

Taking the job of writing seriously

Taking the job of writing seriously

"Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner."

iosonorockmaballoiltango: Benedetti siano gli istanti e i millimetri, e le ombre delle piccole...

iosonorockmaballoiltango:

Benedetti siano gli istanti e i millimetri,

e le ombre delle piccole cose,

ancora più umili delle cose stesse!

Fernando Pessoa

fubiz: 19th Century Library Filled by 350 000 Books A Rio...

fubiz:

19th Century Library Filled by 350 000 Books

A Rio de Janeiro, se trouve une des plus belles bibliothèques du monde : La Real Gabinete Português de Leitura

voxsart: Bimini 1935. Ernest Hemingway and the Hemingway boys.

voxsart:

Bimini 1935.

Ernest Hemingway and the Hemingway boys.