May 2013
natural beauty: language art →
aunatural:
These glorious insults are from an era before the English language became boiled down to 4 letter words.
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”
“That depends, Sir,” said…
There are two people you’ll meet in your life. One will run a finger down the index of who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that peak their interest. The other will take his or her time reading through every one of your chapters and maybe fold corners of you that inspired them most. You will meet these two people; it is a given. It is the third that you’ll never see coming. That one...
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do...”
– Island, Aldous Huxley (via atramentum)
