January 2012
18 posts
“My country is the world and my religion is to do good.”
– Thomas Paine (via nathanielstuart)
“The days grow and the stars cross over
And my wild bed turns slowly among the...”
– Muriel Rukeyser, “Darkness Music” (via awritersruminations)
“It’s just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that,...”
– Bill Hicks (via nathanielstuart)
“Chesterton and Tolkien and Lewis were, as I’ve said, not the only writers I read...”
– Neil Gaiman (via neilgaiman)
All my reading inspires this one corner of the web →
If you are wondering what Apostatements means, I’m embarrassed to say that this blog comprises the statements of an Apostate in the form of original stories, essays and poetry. I apostatize constantly. People fall out of love, I fall out of belief.
“Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is...”
– J.M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country.
“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for...”
– T.S. Eliot, Quartet #2: East Coker.
“Psychedelics are not illegal because a loving government is concerned that you...”
– Terence McKenna (via hippierev0luti0n)
Aaaaaaaaaand if the government really cared about your health cigarettes wouldn’t still be legal. JUST SAYING.
(via nathanielstuart)
“Global warming: Humanity parks the car in a shut garage, leaves it running and...”
– Self
“When we were only several hundred-thousand years old, we built stone circles,...”
– William Gibson, Memory Palace
What Dreams May Come, When We Have Shuffled Off... →
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“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
– Milan Kundera; The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via wordpainting)
“Carry me into the light.
Aim your body heavenly,
Enduring a memory.
I’ll come...”
– Tool, Jimmy, Aenima (1996)
“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love...”
– Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear.
“Man, if you are worth anything, you must walk alone, and talk to yourself and...”
– Epictetus (via standinawe)
“When I turn towards you
in bed, I have a feeling
of stepping into a church...”
–
Henrik Nordbrandt, from “Our Love Is Like Byzantium” (translated from the Danish by the author and Alexander Taylor)
“Dark voices rode the gale, demented, demanding the toll of passage. Calling out...”
– Apostatements, Into the Black.
“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
– Susan Sontag; Regarding the Pain of Others (via wordpainting)
December 2011
14 posts
“The shadow cast is longer as the sun sets on something.”
– Self
“How I would like to believe in tenderness——
The face of the effigy, gentled by...”
– Sylvia Plath (via thesemightysecrets) Loooove this poem.
“There will be no Ave Maria
For the Jong-Il of Northern Korea.
I would pay my...”
– Marc Blur
“It is not your memories which haunt you.
It is not what you have written down....”
– James Fenton, from “A German Requiem” (via awritersruminations)
“Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Suttree (via liquidnight)
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies...”
– Neil Gaiman, from his Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech (via neilgaiman)
“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to...”
– James Joyce (via nathanielstuart)
“Look out, over my outermost fields, my borderless borders—I am vast enough to...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, from Palimpset (via aubade)
“For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay.
In keen and quivering ratio...”
– Emily Dickinson, For Each Ecstatic Instant.
“Be still, my heart, away with pain!
Though passion stirs again
in blood that...”
– Herman Hesse, Gertrude.
“Does God exist? I would say not yet.”
– Ray Kurzweil (via nathanielstuart)
“Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no...”
– Herman Hesse, Gertrude.
“In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation...”
– Herman Hesse, Demian.
“When someone is seeking (…) it happens quite easily that he only sees the...”
– Herman Hesse, Siddhartha.
November 2011
3 posts
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency...”
– Aldous Huxley.
“These bodies of ours come out of the earth, come out of all we eat and drink and...”
– Williams, Tad. Shadowmarch.
“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via quote-book)
October 2011
7 posts
4 tags
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never...”
– Mark Twain (via booklover)
4 tags
“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
– Howard Zinn, Ten years ago, Oct. 7, 2001, the U.S. launched the invasion of Afghanistan (via Facebook)
4 tags
“Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via tealrallythong)
2 tags
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote (via wordpainting)
1 tag
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via rainier)
1 tag
“I know my head isn’t screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself...”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (via rainier)
“It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.”
– Oscar Lavant (via nevver)
September 2011
9 posts
6 tags
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely...”
– Noam Chomsky
for which I feel insanely remorseful for
(via tusha)
6 tags
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to...”
– T.S. Eliot (via sunflower-soul)
“[Destiny is] a feeling you have that you know something about yourself - nobody...”
– Bob Dylan
“Music. The breathing of statues. Perhaps:
The silence of pictures.You, language...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, To Music.
“Nail me to you. I will ride you like a nightmare.”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written On The Body (via serpentskirts)
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain...”
– Emily Dickinson, Time and Eternity.
4 tags
“ “I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller, American engineer, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist and second president of Mensa International (1895-1983), I Seem to Be a Verb, (1970)
“What I came to understand was that we are
a line drawn between only two points,...”
– Apostatements, The Tale of a Pair of Cellphones.