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GPOY?! AM I DOING IT RIGHT

Photo reblogged from Vintage Books & Anchor Books

vintageanchor:

“He was a bachelor and he would have said it was not by choice, that he wished nothing more in his life than a wife and children, and yet the truth―which he acknowledged now, adjusting the level of the lamp on his desk so that it cast a low and golden light on the cedar surround of the leather top―was that he had become so particular in his habits that it would have taken the most impossible charity for him to permit, good fellow though he was, his beloved to alter either the number of lamps or their intensity. Was that the truth? Or was it what he feared to be the truth? Did he not enjoy the company of women? Would he not, as they said, ‘adjust’?” ―Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

“He was a bachelor and he would have said it was not by choice, that he wished nothing more in his life than a wife and children, and yet the truth―which he acknowledged now, adjusting the level of the lamp on his desk so that it cast a low and golden light on the cedar surround of the leather top―was that he had become so particular in his habits that it would have taken the most impossible charity for him to permit, good fellow though he was, his beloved to alter either the number of lamps or their intensity. Was that the truth? Or was it what he feared to be the truth? Did he not enjoy the company of women? Would he not, as they said, ‘adjust’?”
―Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

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Quote reblogged from She Calls Me Artemis

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

Christopher Hitchens (via kyleschen)