June 2012
“The destruction of the ‘Indians’ of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. That is why, as one historian aptly has said, far from the heroic and romantic heraldry that customarily is used to symbolize the European settlement of the Americas, the emblem most congruent with reality would be a pyramid of skulls.”
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American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World - David E. Stannard.
One of the most powerful books I’ve read.
(via mehreenkasana)
May 2012
“Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget.”
—Stefan Sagmeister (via kari-shma)
“Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.”
—AL Kennedy (via amandaonwriting)
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via imfantasyparade)
“That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.”
—Ernest Hemingway (via writingquotes)
“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”
—Carl Jung (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine of them would be blank. On the last page I would write, “I recognize only one duty and that is to love.” And as far as everything else is concerned, I say no.”
—Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks: the ultimate, the last test and proof: the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke (via nirvikalpa)
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
—Henry Miller (via outcamethesun)
