December 2011
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via burnthazel)
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“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
– Betty Friedan (via girlwithoutwings)
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“Relationships are physics. Time transforms things — it has to, because the...”
– Darin Strauss, Half a Life (via distantheartbeats)
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“It’s dark.
You exhale a fist of memory.
I love you like weathering wood
in a...”
– James L. White, from “Lying in Sadness” in The Salt Ecstasies (via proustitute)
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or-doesitexplode:
like—a—bird:
“It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
Ehhh…
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“Civilization, it is immediately apparent, is simply organized resistance to...”
– Hugh Aldersey-Williams (Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements)
… and continued:
“Oxidation betrays the march of time and the inevitable triumph of entropy. The gas gives life, and in doing so brings death closer.” (via jtotheizzoe)
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“You can’t just make me different and then leave. You can’t. You can’t change me...”
– John Green, Looking For Alaska
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00:26: So many truths in this, so much desperation, so much disappointment, so much reality felt, so much bitterness, so much pain. I can’t even begin to describe how this quote struck me, coming from a place where I would’ve (if I haven’t already) said the same...
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“Natural selection is a way of sorting among a range of genetic alternatives, and...”
– Infinite Stupidity | Conversation | Edge (via myserendipities)
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“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss...”
– Rumi (via travels-with-charley)
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travels-with-charley:
My fortune cookie: “maxim for life: you get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you”.
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“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save. They...”
– Anne Lamot (via daphneemarie)
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“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will...”
– Sylvia Plath (via imfantasyparade)
I’m not really THIS dreary but I like it
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POETRYEATER: from Olena Kalytiak Davis, "Three... →
poetryeater:
i saw you spin: pause once pause twice pause t(h)rice; too fast you went for me to catch my love< from that from then was dizzy as a dove dipping low as a sister hawk after (her) mice.
heads up! head down to draw upon that straw:z i’m sorry love, these teeth were in my mouth before we met before…
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus (via girlwithoutwings)
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“In a way, new technologies have made us all like Baudelaire. We are intoxicated...”
– The Smart Set: Privacy Policy - October 13, 2011 (via wildcat2030)
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Overbroad Censorship & Users →
The harm that does to ordinary, non-infringing users is best described via a hypothetical user: Abe. Abe has never even so much as breathed on a company’s copyright but he does many of the things typical of Internet users today. He stores the photos of his children, now three and six years old, online at PickUpShelf* so that he doesn’t have to worry about maintaining backups. He is a teacher...
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“For me it is the act of writing that unlocks the frame. I pin my tragedy onto...”
– Maggie MacKellar, When it Rains (via proustitute)
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“Soul, small wandering one,
my lifelong companion,
where will you go
— numb,...”
– From Seven Last Words of the Emperor Hadrian by David Malouf. (via bookoflead)
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The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
poetbabble:
Driving through hot brushy country the late autumn, I saw a hawk crucified on a barbed-wire fence. I guess as a kind of advertisement to other hawks, saying from the pages of a leading women’s magazine, “She’s beautiful, but burn all the maps to your body. I’m not here of my own choosing.”
- Richard Brautigan
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Poetbabble: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The... →
armenotti:
“Realize, Allen, that if all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn…
Food for thought
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“There is a common superstition that ‘self-respect’ is a kind of charm against...”
– joan didion, “on self-respect” (via wwjzd)
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“I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of...”
– Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (via aequinoctium)
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“I want to be like water, I want to slip through fingers but hold up a ship.”
– Michelle Williams (via daphneemarie)
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Thankfulfor Blog: Gratitude Challenge →
thankful4:
Guest post by Julia Osovskaya
A few days ago I came across a blog post with a brilliantly put question in it. It truly serves as the greatest reminder of the importance of expressing gratitude, yet it’s so simple, really. I wanted to share it with all of you and here it is:
If…
I dig it. And I would be a paltry paltry soul today.
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Watchscipsy:
The Tree of Life (2011) by Terrence Malick
I want to see this movie. This clip was beautiful, although I don’t understand it yet. It reminds me of the Fountain, by Darren Aronofsky. I loved how the space scenes were actually shot through a microscope, filming chemical and bacterial reactions. Looks similar to this and isn’t CGI. Amazing and makes my nerd bells sing