"In our day the asceticism of old has vanished to be replaced by athletic and dietary ‘asceticism’ hitched to the cart of vanity."
(Source: maverickphilosopher.typepad.com)
In honor of Memorial Day weekend, here are a few stars who served in the military.
William Holden (US Army Air Corps), Paul Newman (US Navy), Steve McQueen (Marine Corps), Rock Hudson (US Navy), Elvis Presley (US Army), Tony Curtis (US Navy), Clark Gable (US Army Air Corps), Humphrey Bogart (US Navy), and James Stewart (US Army Air Corps).
(via oldfilmsflicker)
“It’s about a girl who had just come to Paris from her home in Oslo. At the house of some friends, she met a man about whom she’d heard her whole life. A very great and courageous man. He opened up for her a whole beautiful world full of knowledge and thoughts and ideals. Everything she knew or ever became was because of him. And she looked up to him and worshiped him… with a feeling she supposed was love.”
Casablanca, dir. Michael Curtiz
(via oldfilmsflicker)
“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”
― Ross Macdonald
The Outlaw Josey Wales—a libertarian view of life.
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
— Henry David Thoreau
