Queria te dizer

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.

— Marshall McLuhan (via austinkleon)

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

— Margaret Atwood (via incapacityinc)

(Source: incapacityinc)

I want you to mean a great deal to me: Exactly. And then. Blandishment.

— Gertrude Stein

I have just looked up to see if you were as beautiful as I remembered. — Notes are a very beautiful form of literature.

— Alice B. Toklas

Now she is gone and there can never be happiness again

— Alice B Toklas (on Gertrude Stein’s Death)

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting…

It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

— Gertrude Stein (via bikeandwrite)

In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person

— Margaret Anderson

I tell you boys there ain’t any answer, just you believe me, there ain’t any answer…there ain’t going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.

— Gertrude Stein (via shanalama)

Three paces down the shore, low sounds the lute,
The better that my longing you may know;
I’m not asking you to come,
But – can’t you go?

— Serenade by Djuna Barnes (via suspiria-de-profundis)

Oh will I ever have the strength and courage to tell what I feel and think; and do I know it well enough to tell it[?]

— Richard Wright (via ibik23)