“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” — Albert EinsteinTumblr (3.0; @themixtapes)http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcxgjlf7x91qcdzk5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>“<em>i think this is one of those ideas that’s more likely to occur to someone who had just recently moved to new york. if you’ve lived here your whole life, you probably just think of the subway as a way of getting from point a to point b. but to me it was fascinating the way subway cars sometimes run alongside each other, just inches apart, and occasionally line up at the same speed. sometimes you make eye contact with someone in the other train, which is usually more awkward than anything else, but i turned it into something kind of romantic or wistful.”</em></p> <p><em>- <strong>adrian tomine,</strong></em><strong> my first new yorker cover</strong></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50816324449http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50816324449Sun, 19 May 2013 21:01:45 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c7ba663ac2c46d9f8bf248fe53fe3d33/tumblr_mn1qh6j85C1qfl4z6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“and i wonder if Beethoven held his breath</em></p> <p><em>the first time his fingers touched the keys</em></p> <p><em>the same way a soldier holds his breath</em></p> <p><em>the first time his finger clicks the trigger.</em></p> <p><em><span class="quote">we all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.</span>”</em></p> <p><em>- <strong>andrea gibson</strong></em></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50815944693http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50815944693Sun, 19 May 2013 20:53:00 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2yf9wCgTd1qbn7jro1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2yf9wCgTd1qbn7jro2_r2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814970520http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814970520Sun, 19 May 2013 20:30:49 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70uduoiZW1qednp7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“there is something about words. in expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. inside you they work their magic.”</em></p> <p><em>-<strong> diane setterfield</strong></em><strong>, the thirteenth tale</strong></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814831534http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814831534Sun, 19 May 2013 20:27:31 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/da1ec7f48eeb797d11231d7ebff8f889/tumblr_mj01j11Eod1rj472ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814799669http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814799669Sun, 19 May 2013 20:26:44 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ee525827ab6d340553fd1965ad9c249c/tumblr_ml7q40DgQ91rslojao1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“i want to be like water. i want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”</em></p> <p><em>- <strong>michelle williams</strong></em></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814419017http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814419017Sun, 19 May 2013 20:17:14 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm07e3IdwK1qbox11o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“you must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”</em></p> <p><em>-<strong> friedrich nietzsche</strong></em></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814259956http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814259956Sun, 19 May 2013 20:13:11 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8096c718758ab1f2b8c12e718381ff00/tumblr_mj7s7s0mI31qif4c6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“our desires and emotions, though not voluntary, are responses of ours, and affect the moral significance of our lives, not only by influencing our voluntary action, but also just by being what they are, and by manifesting themselves involuntarily. who we are morally depends on a complex and incompletely integrated fabric that includes desires and feelings as well as deliberations and choices.”</em></p> <p><em>-<strong> robert adams</strong></em></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814218579http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814218579Sun, 19 May 2013 20:12:07 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m677nfw0tM1qh59n0o1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m677nfw0tM1qh59n0o2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m677nfw0tM1qh59n0o3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m677nfw0tM1qh59n0o4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p><em><span class="quote">“i</span><span class="quote">t is vain futility to describe the way you smile; it is mere impossibility to speak at all when you are around. i don’t dare breathe. keep smiling. i don’t dare move at all.</span>”</em></p> <p><em>-<strong> friedrich nietzsche</strong></em><strong>, selected letters</strong></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814130515http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814130515Sun, 19 May 2013 20:09:53 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/221329a49108f52db8e634930ca48704/tumblr_mfi2mahwr41rnxo5go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“you have your way. i have my way. as for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”</em></p> <p><em>- <strong>friedrich nietzsche</strong></em></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814068479http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50814068479Sun, 19 May 2013 20:08:16 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5zyoniosj1qbpl2ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“all you have to do is write one true sentence. write the truest sentence that you know.”</em></p> <p><em>- <strong>ernest hemingway</strong></em></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813777111http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813777111Sun, 19 May 2013 20:01:04 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f2cffbd067871e5603c7862a6e6d3c16/tumblr_mig3id2yuh1rdlhc9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813742845http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813742845Sun, 19 May 2013 20:00:19 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ed61a2860da4284a9f16e829407709bf/tumblr_mkyxr0haTh1rmgu8xo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/39571ade87636bda3c21f6f3c79e2ce6/tumblr_mkyxr0haTh1rmgu8xo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p><em>“if people could see me the way i see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?”</em></p> <p><em>-<strong> john green</strong></em></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813736553http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813736553Sun, 19 May 2013 20:00:11 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/692779760d5ae2e673eeac32e6c828bf/tumblr_mk49xaQTNj1r1vfbso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813727673http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813727673Sun, 19 May 2013 19:59:57 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8011c76e8e402fa49ce8f0a5f5d5f445/tumblr_mlqvxgM4T51rnlb7lo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘you owe me.’ look what happens with a love like that. it lights the whole sky.”</em></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813544266http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50813544266Sun, 19 May 2013 19:55:00 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9ffcfb4bbb56638fd0ceacb3a187e803/tumblr_mmydougKjH1revp9ko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“i can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”</em></p> <p><em>- <strong>ernest hemingway</strong></em><strong>, the sun also rises</strong></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50790960976http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50790960976Sun, 19 May 2013 13:21:52 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d06e14f1c6d6630a4e84c50ee03be9db/tumblr_mmyrizxCLO1qced37o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/50744014036/portrait-of-writer-paul-bowles-by-don-bachardy">theparisreview</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Portrait</span><span> of writer <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3208/the-art-of-fiction-no-67-paul-bowles">Paul Bowles</a></span><span> by Don Bachardy.</span></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50790929917http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50790929917Sun, 19 May 2013 13:21:20 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9146b25d7e5b87e815c91d71ad0ec706/tumblr_mmxdhcpLHa1rq7y28o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>“there is a crack in everything.</em></p> <p><em>that’s how the light gets in.”</em></p> <p><em>- <strong>leonard cohen</strong></em></p> </blockquote>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50743882584http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50743882584Sun, 19 May 2013 01:58:35 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqokjxVCgT1qkgeclo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50742820685http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50742820685Sun, 19 May 2013 01:43:34 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c7809c72169b985335245a5627ce19f2/tumblr_mm497iR8001qc8jh0o2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/84d07cda66e1a5b7e947ad8dbefd7b6c/tumblr_mm497iR8001qc8jh0o1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/>http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50720110384http://themixtapes.tumblr.com/post/50720110384Sat, 18 May 2013 18:51:26 +0800