March 2011
45 posts
“Elizabeth has great worries about becoming a cripple because her feet sometimes...”
– Richard Burton on Elizabeth Taylor (via mariavontrapp)
“It’s my anti-smoking strategy. I’m now too drunk to drive to the...”
– my best friend, mister q
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“I really want to finish this beer so I can have a cup of coffee”
“You are hereby invited to watch me face the firing squad.”
– Boris Pasternak, when handing off the manuscript of Doctor Zhivago to an Italian publisher. The New Criterion has a terrific article up about Pasternak, and the new English translation of Zhivago by Pevear and Volokhonsky. (via thebronzemedal)
