debbieliuhoo: harryh: mattlehrer: werdsmiffery: The 20 Most Beautiful Bookshops in the World Foursquare list waiting to happen. https://foursquare.com/harryh/list/the-20-most-beautiful-bookstores-in-the-world :) Bookstores have been and always will be my hideaway. I browse slowly in them when I’m content, I hide in them when I’m upset, I wander in them when I want to lose myself. True story, I blacked out and ran away crying from my friends one night in DC…straight to Kramerbooks where I hid in bookshelves until someone convinced me to come home. If I had wings, or if i was Ironman, I’d fly to one of these a weekend and spend 48 hours exploring each one. If only I could get married in a bookstore and give each guest a book suited entirely to his (or her) taste and ask them to just read. For at least a day. Well, if I was Ironman, I could just build my own beautiful bookstore and get married in it, but I’d also be a man. I want to visit all of these so badly. And wow, you are pretty much my soulmate, Debbie. Two reasons. 1) While interning at Conde Nast the summer after my senior year, my friends would go out in Murray Hill and inevitably head south towards Meatpacking. Usually I’d go along, but a few times, I decided instead to browse tipsily through the $1 racks at the Strand, one of my favorite places on earth. Once, I ended up lugging 15 books (including a first-edition Gourmet cookbook weighing 6 pounds) all the way back to my place in Gramercy. 2) I used to tell my high school friends that I wanted to get married in the Barnes & Noble nearby, because there are two huge escalators that look over aisles and aisles of books. I would ride up the escalator (to the kids’ section) and there my groom would be, waiting for me amongst all of the romance novels. That’s why I loved Carrie’s pick for wedding venue in the SATC movie, so so much. Big and I would be married in the classic New York landmark... ...that housed all the great love stories.

debbieliuhoo:

harryh:

mattlehrer:

werdsmiffery:

The 20 Most Beautiful Bookshops in the World

Foursquare list waiting to happen.

https://foursquare.com/harryh/list/the-20-most-beautiful-bookstores-in-the-world

:)

Bookstores have been and always will be my hideaway. I browse slowly in them when I’m content, I hide in them when I’m upset, I wander in them when I want to lose myself. True story, I blacked out and ran away crying from my friends one night in DC…straight to Kramerbooks where I hid in bookshelves until someone convinced me to come home.

If I had wings, or if i was Ironman, I’d fly to one of these a weekend and spend 48 hours exploring each one. If only I could get married in a bookstore and give each guest a book suited entirely to his (or her) taste and ask them to just read. For at least a day.

Well, if I was Ironman, I could just build my own beautiful bookstore and get married in it, but I’d also be a man.

I want to visit all of these so badly.

And wow, you are pretty much my soulmate, Debbie. Two reasons.

1) While interning at Conde Nast the summer after my senior year, my friends would go out in Murray Hill and inevitably head south towards Meatpacking. Usually I’d go along, but a few times, I decided instead to browse tipsily through the $1 racks at the Strand, one of my favorite places on earth. Once, I ended up lugging 15 books (including a first-edition Gourmet cookbook weighing 6 pounds) all the way back to my place in Gramercy.

2) I used to tell my high school friends that I wanted to get married in the Barnes & Noble nearby, because there are two huge escalators that look over aisles and aisles of books. I would ride up the escalator (to the kids’ section) and there my groom would be, waiting for me amongst all of the romance novels. That’s why I loved Carrie’s pick for wedding venue in the SATC movie, so so much.

Big and I would be married
in the classic New York landmark...

  
...that housed all the great love stories.
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European Financial Crisis

caroulemapoule:

I have 17,91 € to my name. I have 6 slices of bread, half a wedge of brie, 1L of Evian, a small bottle of merlot, some jam and 3 eggs. Once my French bank account starts functioning in 2 or 3 days, I won’t be such a pauper. Boy am I going to have myself a nice restaurant meal and some fine wine when that time comes!

My modish grand-little, living the dream in Poitiers…

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What I’d give for a walk in the sand this afternoon…

What I’d give for a walk in the sand this afternoon…

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“blessing, I can’t tell you how many times this year I’ve felt
painfully sad and happy at once. coming out of the university building
… and then seeing the ‘evening spread out against the sky’ like the beginning of
prufrock, and never having felt so painfully alone and proud in my
loneliness. do you feel that too, when you walk to the subway? we’re
both in places where we can blend in, almost, until we don’t.”

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(Source: ournameisirrelevant)

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“In very short order I found myself traveling the world with the best job in the world, doing pretty much whatever I wanted, eating whatever I wanted, drinking too much, and given the creative freedom to tell stories about those experiences any way I liked.”

— Anthony Bourdain

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"Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood."
— The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Just received this email from Concierge. Who knew that acting as Polaroid’s creative director was Lady Gaga’s latest gig? There’s a lot of potential there, something to watch. I want a pair!

Just received this email from Concierge. Who knew that acting as Polaroid’s creative director was Lady Gaga’s latest gig? There’s a lot of potential there, something to watch. I want a pair!

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Word Lens translates signs directly into English, which will make traveling a cinch in the future! Technology really boggles my mind — this will make learning languages one step easier!

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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vexed the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honoured of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this grey spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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