"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another."

Stoner (John Williams)

(Source: isserleylovesbooks)

@13 hours ago with 7 notes

oh-deir:

ACTUAL MESSAGE OF (500) DAYS OF SUMMER THAT NO ONE ACTUALLY REALIZES

It really bugs me when people get the wrong message from that movie (like “Ugh, she was such a bitch” or “Aww, weren’t they so cute?”).

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@2 days ago with 144754 notes
#500 days of summer 

takealookatyourlife:

annetdonahue:

I’ve finally accepted that these people get what true happiness and love are.

Reblog all of the Mama June

This is excellent parenting.

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@3 days ago with 166448 notes

"The human condition, but what of the angelic? Halfway between Allahgod and homosap, did they ever doubt? They did: challenging God’s will one day they hid muttering beneath the Throne, daring to ask forbidden things: antiquestions. Is it right that. Could it not be argued. Freedom, the old antiquest. He calmed them down, naturally, employing management skills a la god. Flattered them: you will be the instruments of my will on earth, the salvationdamnation of man, all the usual etcetera. And hey presto, the end of protest, on with the haloes, back to work. Angels are easily pacified; turn them into instruments and they’ll play your harpy tune. Human beings are tougher nuts, can doubt anything, even the evidence of their own eyes. Of behind-their-own-eyes. Of what, as they sink heavy-lidded, transpires behind closed peepers … angels, they don’t have much in the way of a will. To will is to disagree; not to submit; to dissent."

On angels and free will. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (via isserleylovesbooks)
@4 days ago with 3 notes

"DiCaprio and Mulligan, meanwhile, don’t seem like star-crossed lovers so much as a delusional man in love with a bauble of a woman. Maybe that’s intentional?"

People Magazine’s review on ‘The Great Gatsby’

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@5 days ago with 40982 notes
#The Great Gatsby 
I want to see this!

I want to see this!

(Source: lebenssurrealismus, via kuhlayre)

@1 week ago with 199 notes
#and then a gatsby party 
degenezijde:

My favourite pair of ants.

Same.

degenezijde:

My favourite pair of ants.

Same.

@1 week ago with 6 notes
#neveneffecten 

Quick reminder

Correct:"this is how that new phone looks."
Also correct:"This is what that new phone looks like."
Incorrect:"This is how that new phone looks like."
@1 week ago with 4 notes

"I should never have done all my research in prisons. I should have spent my time inside the Stock Exchange as well.”
I looked at Bob [Hare, criminal psychologist who created a test for psychopathy]. “Really?” I said.
He nodded.
“But surely stock-market psychopaths can’t be as bad as serial-killer psychopaths,” I said.
“Serial killers ruin families.” Bob shrugged. “Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies."

From the book,  The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry, written by Jon Ronson

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(via lilnerdette)

Exactly this. I went to a seminar with Robert Hare, and he said this same thing, that people make much too little of the non-serial killer variety of psychoath. Swindling on a large scale ruins many more lives than one individual serial killer ever could, and it’s seen as somehow “less bad”.

(via wereallvictimsofacrime)

@1 day ago with 10 notes
#robert hare #psychology #forensic psychology #psychopathy 

MY THESIS IS ALL DONE!

I’ve uploaded it to Minerva, so I am entirely unable to change anything else now. Which means: freedom!

Obligatory question mark?

@3 days ago with 5 notes
#so you guys can reply if you want to #thesis #me 

thegeek531:

The power of D&D.

I love this scene. And the entire episode. And the entire season And the entire show.

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@3 days ago with 3518 notes
#the it crowd #roy #moss 

sad-teeth:

So today Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy, which is the removal of one’s breasts, to prevent Breast cancer. So instead of praising Angelina on her bravery, men on Twitter decided to ridicule her, even calling her stupid for removing her breasts. For those of you on Tumblr that are attacking Feminists about being delusional about sexism against women and misogyny here’s your fucking proof that sexism and misogyny exists. 

How about we prioritise women’s health and autonomy over their own bodies OVER the fact that “boobs are great”?

(via drowninginirrelevance)

@5 days ago with 97803 notes

“Ugh, what, she doesn’t even know that? This marriage is going to suck.”

(Source: gameofsnow, via keowyn)

@1 week ago with 2304 notes
#loras #loras tyrell #sansa #sansa stark #loras x sansa #game of thrones 

Back to the bookshop.

*cackles evilly*

@1 week ago with 3 notes

"I’m wary of anything that smacks of “making feminism sexy.” Sex-positivity should be a part of feminism because sexuality is important—not because feminism needs spicing up. I really don’t want to imply any “be a feminist ally and you’ll get lots of kinky sex” deals here, or any “don’t worry, we’re not man-haters, we’re into stripteases and blowjobs!” cajoling. The challenge of integrating sex-positivity into feminism is communicating “women’s sexual desire matters” without giving any ammunition to “women are for sex."

@1 week ago with 1732 notes
#yes this #also sexuality =/= objectification