April 2013
2 posts
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman (via awesome-advice)
“‘I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny.”
– Nick Cave, The Death of Bunny Munro (via fortune-n-glory)
March 2013
8 posts
“I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind...”
– Vladimir Nabokov Despair (via armchair-armadillo)
“We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for...”
– Margaret Atwood, Dancing Girls (via wordsthattingle)
“ ‘My, my. A body does get around. Here we aint been coming from Alabama but two...”
– from ‘Light in August’ by William Faulkner (via culturalreserve)
“And there were times when I knew how you felt and it was hell to know it.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. (via tarisemiolev)
“What use one makes of a historical explanation is a question separate from the...”
– Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel (via fortune-n-glory)
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“I used to believe that the human race as a whole was basically a few steps above...”
– Anthony Bourdain on CNN (3/18/2013)
“Colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity...”
– Jack Kerouac (via semelee)
“Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and...”
– Howard Zinn, Artists of Resistance (2001)
January 2013
15 posts
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“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety...”
– Benjamin Franklin (via amealofcats)
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“Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet...”
– C.s. Lewis (The Great Divorce)
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“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be...”
– Simone De Beauvoir (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over,...”
– Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons. (via packardian)
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“It is in those moments were you think you have failed so many times that you...”
– Javier Martinez (via javiphotography)
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“I’ve always tried to please and satisfy an audience that thinks they’ve seen...”
– John Waters, from Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (via roamingisalocalcurse)
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“He was a boy born to be quite wicked who was being very good and he carried his...”
– from Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway (via playboyvdarling)
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“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake,...”
– from Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway (via playboyvdarling)
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“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need...”
– Philip Pullman (via filleindomptee)
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“It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So...”
– Neil Gaiman’s New Years wish (via sickeninglyliberal)
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“I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be...”
– Chris Cleave, The Other Hand (via ceolaguscraic)
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“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset...”
– Lost In Translation (via major-paradoxx)
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“ There is a woman at the begining of all great things. ”
– Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (via quotedojo)
“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you...”
– Paul Auster, Winter Journal (via textualcategory)
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“A little health now and again is the invalid’s best remedy.”
– - Nietzsche (via discoveringjade)
December 2012
98 posts
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“Eagerly yet uncomprehendingly I read the words that a man of my own lineage had...”
– from The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges (via playboyvdarling)
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“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws...”
– Thomas Jefferson on the U.S. Constitution (including the Second Amendment)
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“I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically — any woman. I was a hitter. I...”
– John Lennon
Daily reminder that Lennon himself admitted to being physically abusive towards women. This is not a rumor; this is a reality. I’m really tired of people treating him as if he were some kind of saint.
(via dearly)
Lennon was definitely not a saint or a god. In many ways, he was...
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My Boyfriend Woke Up Yelling This Morning
tinyangryartmachine:
and hasn’t stopped.
He’s just pacing the kitchen and yelling
I started taking it down but couldn’t keep up this is what I got:
“And it’s not even the guns! It’s Americans attitudes with our big ass dicks in our hands screaming ‘Don’t tread on me!’ I think you could give the majority of Britain guns and they wouldn’t act the way we act. And we can’t give money to NASA,...
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“The only guns that Japanese citizens can legally buy and use are shotguns and...”
– Max Fisher, The Atlantic (via sickeninglyliberal)
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“By… our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (November 1963, as quoted in “I Have a Dream: The Life and Times of Martin Luther King, Jr.”)
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“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is...”
– H.P. Lovecraft (via moon-critter)
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“England, where no one has guns; fourteen deaths. United States - and I think you...”
– Bill Hicks, from Love All the People (via sickeninglyliberal)
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“When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim.”
– Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via cybergirlfriend)
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“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson Gentry (via left-nut)
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“There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and...”
– CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon (via jaegerjaques)
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“It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies,...”
– Marilyn Manson, “Whose Fault Is It?” (Rolling Stone, 1999)
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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever;...”
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (via wotcherkatniss)
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“The agency is a funny place. It’s like middle schoolers with clearances.”
– Former CIA associate as quoted in the Washington Post December 11 article “In Movie She’s a Hero. In Real Life, it’s Complicated.” That makes me feel safe. (via someonestruth)
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“We applaud the creation of a bomb whose sole purpose is to destroy all of...”
– Marilyn Manson, “Whose Fault Is It?” (Rolling Stone, 1999)
“Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after...”
– Mayor Michael Bloomberg (via theatlantic)
I agree with the mayor, but let’s be honest here: what will Congress do? What will Congress, with the House of Representatives controlled by the fractured and Tea Party-bound GOP, do with regards to gun control?
Not a goddamned thing.
(via...
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“We’re the people who sit back and tolerate children owning guns, and we’re the...”
– Marilyn Manson, “Whose Fault Is It?” (Rolling Stone, 1999)
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“I think that the National Rifle Association is far too powerful to take on, so...”
– Marilyn Manson, “Whose Fault Is It?” (Rolling Stone, 1999)
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Fuck you, media.
sickeninglyliberal:
Fuck you for your irresponsible, unforgivable reporting on this tragedy.
Fuck you for interviewing traumatized children.
Fuck you for confronting a man and telling him that his ex-wife and over two dozen others were shot dead by his son.
Fuck you for calling the 78 year old distraught grandma of the shooter and mother of the deceased Nancy and expecting her not to...
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“So you can understand how our awareness
will die completely at the moment when...”
– Dante Alghieri from The Divine Comedy. Inferno. Canto X (via quotesfrompoems)
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