May 2012
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...
– Carson McCullers (via carveher)
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kanyedaily:
Kanye singing ‘Hey Mama’ with his Mama ;____;
Presh. Happy Mother’s Day!
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Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way...
– Leo Tolstoy (via earlyfrost)
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I almost got into a traffic accident with David...
rockandrolltedium:
I was crossing a street in lower Manhattan, and David Byrne had to brake his bike real fast to keep from hitting me. He said he was sorry. I said it was ok, and told him to have a nice day.
by mem
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flatteryoconnor:
I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.
- Louise Gluck
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when my professor tries really hard to make... →
grovecityproblems:
and I’m just like:
I come back after a certain class every day and complain to my roommate about how I had to sit through a professor try to be funny and fail while being surrounded by obnoxious people who laugh at every sound he utters. UGH. TWO MORE DAYS.
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April 2012
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Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
– ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via koala-have-two-vaginas)
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Harold Bloom on Blood Meridian →
“It’s not only the ultimate Western, the book is the ultimate dark dramatization of violence. Again, I don’t see anyone surpassing it in that regard.”
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To review or not to review: A restaurant critic... →
She stubs out her cigarette in the ashtray, then settles herself against him,...
– Margaret Atwood, from “The Blind Assassin” (via fluorescentcrescent)
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thallydraper:
omg and when betty initially went to the doctor to get something done about her weight and mentioned diet pills i got really afraid that this season and the next two would see her spiralling down into addiction PLS DON’T DO THAT TO HER MATT WEINER I HAVE SEEN REQUIEM FOR A DREAM OK DIET PILL ADDICTIONS ARE HORRIFYING BEYOND BELIEF
SOUL CRUSHING
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March 2012
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Strongly influenced by modern R&B … the xx use a drum machine to...
– Nearly perfect Pitchfork review of The xx that articulates why I couldn’t get enough of that album when it first came out and why I love it so. Read the rest of it here.
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It’s impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can...
– Margaret Atwood, from The Handmaid’s Tale (with thanks to blogut)
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Places I want to go:
* http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1957/amazing-places-to-experience-around-the-globe-part-1
* http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1990/amazing-places-to-experience-around-the-globe-part-2
* http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/2044/amazing-places-to-experience-around-the-globe-part-3
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… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
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There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey...
– Pablo Neruda, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 1971 (via shinjimoon)
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