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“…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
— Albert Einstein
via booklover / awritersruminations
![fuckyeahchemistry:
2x2is5:
I saw this, and the universe suddenly made sense. [reddit]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0kdmlKk7S1qbxftoo1_250.gif)
I saw this, and the universe suddenly made sense.
[reddit]
"She said she never aspired to be a photojournalist. Rather her path, she explained, was mostly driven by a love of history and her desire to see it unfold firsthand."
"Most of the modern writing I like the best is both sophisticated and colloquial—that is, high-level and complicated but at the same time intimate, sort of like a smart person is sitting right there talking to you—and I think I do little more than try to achieve this same high-low blend."
David Foster Wallace, proving, essentially, that he would like tumblr. (via sometimesagreatnotion)
this makes my heart beat fast!
(via meaghano)
NY Times - Birth of a Poem →
The words of Tina Chang, a Brooklyn poet laureate—what a gem. :)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Library Voices - Kundera on the Dance Floor
This has now become the 52books theme song.
