"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
– George Bernard Shaw (via misswallflower)

"Despite their bleak performance this year, the nation’s top six banks paid out $144 billion in bonuses and compensation for 2011, second only to the record $147 billion they paid out in 2007 at the height of the economic boom."

"I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder."
– Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald, November 1931

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