Café Verona

“You know, I … I’ve always dreamed of being a Broadway actress, since I was a little kid - and now…

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:18:18 +0100

“You know, I … I’ve always dreamed of being a Broadway actress, since I was a little kid - and now I’m here and I’m not a Broadway actress. I’m still just a little kid. And I keep waiting for someone to tell me I’ve made it.

Hey. You made it… Sadly it was with Mike Shiner in a fake motel bed in front of, like, 800 people, but…

Look, none of this is your fault, ok? You’re beautiful, and you’re talented, and I’m lucky to have you. OK?”

1977. Battery Park, NYC.

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 01:10:42 +0100

1977. Battery Park, NYC.

Jason Anderson, Glide

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:15:30 +0100

Jason Anderson, Glide

"I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to..."

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:37:12 +0000

““I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was twenty five years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.
I’m talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great, so crushing, so catastrophic, that you have no choice but to be liberated by it. That’s the only choice, or else you crawl into a corner and die.””

- Paul Auster, Moon Palace (via cafeverona)

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Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:16:59 +0000

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Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:32:39 +0000

"I don’t fault people for their suspicions. I learned long ago to distrust my childhood and the..."

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:57:57 +0100

“I don’t fault people for their suspicions. I learned long ago to distrust my childhood and the stories that shaped it. It was only many years later, after I had sat at my father’s grave and spoken to him through Africa’s red soil, that I could circle back and evaluate these early stories for myself. Or, more accurately, it was only then that I understood that I had spent much of my life trying to rewrite these stories, plugging up holes in the narrative, accommodating unwelcome details, projecting individual choices against the blind sweep of history, all in the hope of extracting some granite slab of truth upon which my unborn children can firmly stand.”

- Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father

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Fri, 26 Aug 2016 22:16:15 +0100

"Loves are like empires — when the idea that they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away."

Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:49:29 +0100

“Loves are like empires — when the idea that they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”

- Milan Kundera

"If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than..."

Mon, 06 Jun 2016 00:18:02 +0100

“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”

- Montesquieu

"posterity, n. I try not to think about us growing old together, mostly because I try not to think..."

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 22:30:10 +0100

“posterity, n.
I try not to think about us growing old together, mostly because I try not to think about growing old at all. Both things —the years passing, the years together —are too enormous to contemplate. But one morning, I gave in. You were asleep, and I imagined you older and older. Your hair graying, your skin folded and creased, your breath catching. And I found myself thinking: If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. Your memories will be my most lasting impression.”

- The Lover’s Dictionary

"Healthy, adj. There are times when I’m alone that I think, ‘this is it, this is actually..."

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 01:30:26 +0100

“Healthy, adj.
There are times when I’m alone that I think, ‘this is it, this is actually the natural state.’ All I need is my thoughts and my small acts of creation or my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I’m better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it’s time to go.”

- The Lover’s Dictionary

"Fast, n. and adj. Starvation and speed. Noun and adjective. This is where I get caught. A fast is..."

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 01:09:53 +0100

“Fast, n. and adj.
Starvation and speed. Noun and adjective. This is where I get caught. A fast is the opposite of desire. It is the negation of desire. It is what I feel after the fight.
The speed does us in. We act rashly, we say too much, we don’t let all the synapses connect before we do the thing we shouldn’t do.
You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. But I just leave. Even if I’m standing still there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.”

- The Lover’s Dictonary

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Sat, 05 Mar 2016 21:03:18 +0000

coyotenegro: Lake Powell, Arizona

Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:00:13 +0000

coyotenegro:

Lake Powell, Arizona

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and..."

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:41:20 +0000

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realise that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”

- Seneca

girlinthepark: Patrick Janelle | Sel Rrose.

Sat, 06 Feb 2016 22:51:36 +0000

girlinthepark:

Patrick Janelle | Sel Rrose.

"In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend..."

Mon, 07 Sep 2015 12:50:06 +0100

“In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”

- Harvey

erikangstrom: Dir: Lernert & Sander Chocolate Bunny,...

Tue, 05 May 2015 00:37:19 +0100

erikangstrom:

Dir: Lernert & Sander

Chocolate Bunny, 2011

Music: Nathan Larson

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Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:11:43 +0000