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steelplatedhearts:

Alternate title for The Great Gatsby:

I Am Uncomfortable With Your Personal Drama And I Want To Go Home: The Nick Carraway Story

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#ridiculously relevant to my life

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.

— Bill Watterson (via mikekarnell)

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[W]hen we launch in a territory the Bittorrent traffic drops as the Netflix traffic grows. So I think people do want a great experience and they want access – people are mostly honest. The best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally but by giving good options. One of the side effects of growth of content is an expectation to have access to it. You can’t use the internet as a marketing vehicle and then not as a delivery vehicle.

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Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix (via laliberty)

Look, someone who gets it.

(via knitmeapony)

this perfectly mirrors my feelings about ebooks & libraries, too.

(via methodistcoloringbook)

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Powell's Books: There's a book for that

powells:

artemiswinter:

powells:

marigold1900:

How to Talk Yourself Out of …

plastic surgery: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells

tattoos: In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

haircuts: Sweeney Todd (multiple authors)

Oooh, let’s make this a thing…

prep school: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

hooking up with exes: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

holding a grudge: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

marriage: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

cheating: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

manic pixie dream girls: Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

extramarital affairs: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (See also: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert)

trusting teenagers: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

politics: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

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popculturebrain:

New ‘Key & Peele’ Sketch: Weird Playlist (by comedycentral)

I love Key & Peele so freaking much.

1 day ago · 107 notes · Reblogged from popculturebrain

#GPOY

8 Signs You're A Book Person

4. You will buy another copy of a book you already own if you encounter a particularly beautiful edition. Fancy endpapers! Genuine leather binding! It’s a collector’s item, really. You’d be foolish NOT to buy it.

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