“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. … What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.” — Maurice Sendak on Fresh Air in 2011. [all interviews with Sendak here] (via nprfreshair)
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Best news I’ve heard all day.
Oh. Maa. God. Things just got literally (maybe notliterally literally)beyond exciting here at Penguin Books UK, 80 Strand, London, England, with the news that Zadie Smith just delivered THE FINAL DRAFT OF NW, HER FIRST NOVEL FOR 7 YEARS!
Zadie uses Garamond!
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Well, my vote’s sewn up.
President Obama reading “Where the Wild Things Are”
![Steven Galloway wrote a beautiful book loosely based on this man. It’s gorgeous and haunting and you should read it.
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Vedran Smajlović performs in Sarajevo’s partially destroyed National Library in 1992. Smailović became famous by taking his cello into the streets of Sarajevo during the siege. Regularly playing his cello in ruined buildings during the siege of Sarajevo, most notably performing Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor. He protested against violence and murder by playing during bombings and funerals. He left the city in 1993 and never played again in his hometown. Till the 5th of April 2012.
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Steven Galloway wrote a beautiful book loosely based on this man. It’s gorgeous and haunting and you should read it.
Vedran Smajlović performs in Sarajevo’s partially destroyed National Library in 1992. Smailović became famous by taking his cello into the streets of Sarajevo during the siege. Regularly playing his cello in ruined buildings during the siege of Sarajevo, most notably performing Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor. He protested against violence and murder by playing during bombings and funerals. He left the city in 1993 and never played again in his hometown. Till the 5th of April 2012.
[Credit : Mikhail Evstafiev]
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Yes!!
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
— Neil Degrasse Tyson, in an AMA on reddit, responding to a young man who asked how to find motivation in life. (via fishingboatproceeds)
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baby octopus.
Hello, babies. —A.P.
“When I was four, I had a deep obsession with the “Sesame Street” character Oscar the Grouch. I spent hours crouched in the kitchen trash can, occasionally popping out to say crabby things to my mother, who was basically a good sport about it.” —
one of the best author quotes ever.
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What a great man.
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I’ve been reading this book in huge gulps all weekend, and despite all of the visceral descriptions of bruises and blood and blisters and bears and really terrible things happening to toenails, all I keep thinking is: Fuck, I want to do that someday. But probably with a gun.