J.L. Jarvis
February 2012
67 posts
Why we prefer romantic movies when we're chilly →
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If summer is the season for shoot-em-up action flicks, then winter is the time for romance. Now a new study backs that up, finding that movie lovers tend to gravitate to romantic movies in the cold weather in hopes it will make them feel warm.
Slavic Heroes: Mariusz Kwiecien →
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He’s my slavic hero.
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
—Edith Wharton
“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen (via myimaginarybrooklyn)
“And Troy’s deformities lay deep down from a woman’s vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.”
—Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.”
— Woody Allen, Love and Death
