Berfrois

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July 2012

123 posts

A Different Stripe: Pub philosophy from Patrick... →

nyrbclassics: All this time the lounge had been slowly filling with people, and a hum of conversation had come into being all round. Outside in the tram-shaken street Hammersmith roared and swirled on its own furious and meaningless course. As meaningless and obscurely motivated as that crowd and chaos…

“I smoke marijuana every chance I get.”

– Allen Ginsberg

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a...”

– Victor Hugo

“I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.”

thistorchthatifound:

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a...”

“There is another world but it is in this one.”

– Paul Éluard or W. B. Yeats (attribution unknown)

“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them...”

– Andy Warhol