June 2012
2 posts
May 2012
10 posts
5 tags
“Faster, faster. Until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
8 tags
Saudade
For my first untranslatable word, I picked Saudade. I understand Portuguese and I believe I can use saudade correctly. However, I’d love your input in defining it.
Saudade is a unique Galician-Portuguese word that has no immediate translation in English. Saudade describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often carries a repressed...
“You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom...”
– Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
(via honeyforthehomeless)
April 2012
6 posts
2 tags
March 2012
6 posts
“Everyone behaves badly—given the chance.”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
(via hockey-teeth)
Life is not life without imagination: “It’s not... →
yaaaaaaay:
“It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the `parlour families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not. No, no, it’s not books at all you’re looking for! Take it…
February 2012
17 posts
“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be...”
– Charles Bukowski (via soulstereo)
“She’s never where she is,” I said. “She’s only inside her head.”
– White Oleander (via shetakesflight)
6 tags
“Para su escepticismo y concepto realista de las cosas, la sociedad asunceña-...”
– Gabriel Casaccia
4 tags
Concursos literarios
http://www.escritores.org/index.php/recursos-para-escritores/concursos-literario/5468-premio-platero-2012
http://www.escritores.org/index.php/recursos-para-escritores/concursos-literario/5744-i-premio-internacional-de-relatos-de-cerveza-ficcion
http://www.escritores.org/index.php/recursos-para-escritores/concursos-literario/5682-premio-darkiss-de-novela-juvenil
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January 2012
11 posts
“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
5 tags
“The Charm Bracelets didn’t study… From an early age they knew what...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides- Middlesex
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anaïs Nin (via matrem)