février 2012
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Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey: Letters →
I’m hyperventilating right now! I cannot even! I wanted to get this but I couldn’t find it to buy for less than $100 and now look at it! Gloriously free! For my Kindle! I’m still buying the first edition once I get a real job, but until then! HOLY SHIT!
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“I don’t want my ‘part’ taken! I haven’t...”
– Frances Partridge (Love in Bloomsbury - Memories)
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Looking back into childhood is like turning a telescope the wrong way around. Everything appears in miniature, but with a clarity it probably does not deserve; moreover it has become concentrated and stylized, taking shape in symbolism. Thus it is that I sometimes see my infant self as having been set down before a blank slate on which to construct a map or schema of the external world, and as...
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“..setting this series just before the Second World War is clever. In 2012, our...”
– Alex Kingston (Dr Blanche Mottershead), Upstairs Downstairs. What’s On TV, 16th February 2012. (via akittenatemycouscous)
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At one point in time I could enjoy silence. I...
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“These days you’re made to feel dull and defensive if you weren’t the Whore of...”
– Myrna Loy (via darlingdelovely)
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people who talk during classical music concerts and/or opera should be shot in both knees and left there on the floor bleeding to death