February 2012
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (via stick-it-to-the-math)
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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once...”
– Bertrand Russell (via blithley-insane)
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“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If...”
– Charles Bukowski, Women (via fortuneandglory)
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“What was the Lorax? And why was it there? And why was it lifted and taken...”
– Dr. Seuss, The Lorax (via dr—seuss)
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“It was too big for him, that was the truth. It had never really progressed, it...”
– George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Anyone who has poured their soul and years of their time into writing a novel can probably relate to Orwell’s idealistic Gordon Comstock.
(via fortuneandglory)
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“The art of storytelling has remained unchanged. And for the most part, the...”
– Joe Sabia’s TED talk on Storytelling (via myepeolatry)
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“It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some...”
– Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World (via fortuneandglory)
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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via cine-camera)
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized any way.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via elleninstereo)
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“Well-educated people also possess an enlarged capacity for independent thought....”
– My former English professor and drinking friend brilliantly tears apart Governor Corbett’s proposed slashes to higher education in Pennsylvania’s latest budget. (via fortuneandglory)
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The Book of Tumblr Returns: Click here to download... →
fortuneandglory:
theonlybook:
It may have seemed like a long hiatus (because it was), but this project is far from complete. Read the first 30 pages of Tumblr’s very first user-created novel - written by ten different Tumblr users, who each had no idea where the others would be taking the story - by clicking on the link above. Right here is also a story overview of each character in the story...
January 2012
45 posts
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“I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”
– Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in The Maltese Falcon (via fortuneandglory)
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“Worst of all, I swallowed your bullshit. You can rationalize it all you want by...”
– A “no strings” girlfriend to Hank Moody in the most recent Californication episode.
“Now, you can call this class warfare all you want. But asking a billionaire to...”
– Barack Obama, State of the Union 2012 (via sovietbitches)
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“Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s...”
– President Obama, State of the Union Address (2012)
Help us, President Obama-Kenobi, save states like Pennsylvania from governors hellbent on destroying public education. You’re our only hope.
(via fortuneandglory)
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“In a perfect world, individuals would be free to take all the heroin they wanted...”
– Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw (via fortuneandglory)
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“I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all...”
– Robert Owen in The Life of Robert Owen (via fortuneandglory)
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“I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one...”
– Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw (via fortuneandglory)
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“I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty,...”
– Robert Owen in his 1816 address to the inhabitants of New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Indeed, his words ring more true today than ever before.
(via fortuneandglory)
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“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an...”
– Martin Luther King (via meonparade)
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“I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, ‘There...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love (via thelaurenkelly)
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fortuneandglory:
It might not make me popular in the dating scene, but I will say it: the whole idea of weddings is ridiculous to me. I will never, ever, ever have a wedding. Now, bear with me - I am no Grinch and this is no “love is the pitfall of the weak” sentiment here. I love love. Love is great. Makes people happy and fulfilled and whatnot. I also realize that “love and...
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“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
– Semisonic (via qu0tati0ns)
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“‘The past is the past,’ Harry goes on, ‘you got to live in the present. … It’s...”
– John Updike, Rabbit is Rich (via fortuneandglory)
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
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“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via theamericanbear)
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“You don’t stop caring, champ. You still care about that little girl whose...”
– John Updike, Rabbit is Rich (via fortuneandglory)
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“I made a very important discovery… Happiness consists in getting enough sleep....”
– Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (via fortuneandglory)
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“I can’t tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, or right and wrong for that...”
– Norm MacDonald (via fortuneandglory)
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“About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (via fortuneandglory)
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“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity,...”
– “Lady Windermere’s Fan” by Oscar Wilde (via its-me-melanie)
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“It’s a cultural thing. And that intersection of what makes food possible to me...”
– Andrew Zimmern on the importance of food in understanding different cultures. (via fortuneandglory)
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“Sweating through your shirt, resisting the urge to double over in pain, you...”
– I have never really been able to explain why it is I subject myself to foods that cause physical pain. I’m talking burn-my-nostrils, make-me-cry pain. Why?
When I was eleven years old, I had my first extra sloppy, extra spicy chicken wing from a local pizza joint - mild by my current standards,...
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“It restores my faith in human nature to think that there are people who have...”
– Warren Buffet responding to Mitch McConnell’s argument that if Buffet feels “guilty” about paying so few taxes, then he should “cut a check” to the U.S. government (via fortuneandglory)
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“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
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“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Be It Resolved: Freedom of Speech Includes the Freedom to Hate
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“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
– The Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger (via jesseekkah)
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“An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.”
– Paulo Coelho (via mollycular)
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“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes....”
– Aldo Leopold in his autobiographical story Thinking Like a Mountain (via fortuneandglory)