March 2012
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“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘universe’, a...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“That is our pointed task. Love and die.”
– John Berryman
February 2012
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“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this...”
– Emily Bronte
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“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“Son of a bitch, I’m sick of these dolphins.”
– Steve Zissou
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“Do you understand the power of form, of expression, of pretense, the arbitrary...”
– Bruno Schulz
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“‘Yes,’ Judith said. ‘Or destroy it. As you like. Read it if...”
– William Faulkner
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly...”
– C. S. Lewis
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“The most beautiful of journeys are taken through the window.”
– The King of Hearts
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“Who knows how to make love stay?
1. Tell love you are going to Junior’s...”
– Tom Robbins
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“She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond...”
– Thomas Pynchon
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explosions in the sky - first breath after coma
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“(a) Are the skies you sleep under likely to open up for weeks on end?
(b) Is...”
– Zadie Smith
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i want what i cant have. even worse, my lust goes beyond unattainable into the realm of hurt. i want what will destroy me.
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my dream life:
when everything goes to shit- i.e. my grades becoming shitty enough so as i cant get accepted in to college, or dropping out and running away- i am moving to a large city of the likes of new york, or paris, or london and starting a used book store. with a piano, a black cat, and an endless supply of sweet smelling novels, i will never have to leave my second floor flat ever. and i...
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i got in a full hour long debate with my history teacher today in front of our entire class. whenever we’re talking about a controversial issue, take the scientific revolution for example or the reformation, he has to inject his purely ignorant, biased, hardcore christianity fucking conservative views into every single aspect of what we’re supposed to be “learning”. today,...
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“But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot...”
– Anthony Burgess
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“This body of ours, this disguise put on by common jumping molecules, is in...”
– Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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“You may not see it now,” said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking...”
– Norton Juster
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The Sylvia Plath Effect
The stereotype of writers being an oft depressed lot has, since 2003, been backed up by academic research. In a study of 1,987 dead writers, James C. Kaufman, director of the Learning Research Institute at California State University, concluded that the average lifespan of prominent writers was much lower than that of the non-genius population that groveled at their feet.
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“Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity...”
– Joseph Campbell
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“Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I...”
– Henry Miller
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“So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish...”
– Hermann Hesse
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tv on the radio - second song
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all of you should take the 52 minutes and 32 seconds of wonderful time that it takes to listen to the scotch mist version of in rainbows. ive attached a link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukythkK4EPQ
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“The rest of us, not chosen for enlightenment, left on the outside of Earth, at...”
– Thomas Pynchon
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the morning benders - pleasure sighs
“Just don’t leave me alone…”
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“Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and...”
– H. P. Lovecraft
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“I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long
Then...”
– Conor Oberst
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“Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to...”
– Chaim Potok
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“Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.”
– Charles Baudelaire
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“And I’ll dance with you in Vienna…”
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“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus