It's Been A Long Long Day: Archive

It's Been A Long Long Day

February 2012

“He was a UCLA baseball star, a WWII hero, and was involved in the prosecution of...”

– Richard Speight Jr. (via oneluckycharmz)

“She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful...”

– Jedediah Berry (via belljar)

Why Are Harvard Graduates in the Mailroom? →

tanya77: But part of the American post-World War II economic miracle was that most people didn’t have to choose between a high-stakes-lottery job or a lousy dead-end one. Steelworkers, midlevel corporate executives, shopkeepers and plumbers were all able to make a decent amount from the start of their careers with steady, but never spectacular, raises throughout. These two tiers actually...

“But hurry, let’s entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten...”

– Federico García Lorca, Sonnet of the Garland of Roses, trans. by Scott Tucker (via frenchtwist)