June 2012
“There’s only one rule I know of: You’ve got to be kind.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, cited in Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist. Einstein would concur. (via explore-blog)
“There is no beauty without some strangeness.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via chadabramovich)
“There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star,...”
– The Waves, Virginia Woolf (via fromliterature)
“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via nirvikalpa)
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“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly...”
– Kaczynski (via hellabay)
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“Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later. I am learning everyday to...”
– Tracee Eliis Ross (via dearkristina)
“When you get there, there isn’t any there there.”
– Zen Proverb (via shaktilover)
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“I live in my dreams—that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not...”
– Herman Hesse (via thelittlephilosopher)
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The Accidental Transcendental: Jack Kerouac’s List... →
gaws:
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try to never get drunk outside your own house 4. Be in love with your life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form 6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 7….
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“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you...”
– Anne Lamott (via pluralisms)
“Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put...”
– Audre Lorde (via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
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given up on being productive for now, this will be...
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WELL this has been the most overwhelming couple of days I’ve had in a long time and it was not at all what I was expecting from this weekend. Ugh. I have too much to think about. Can’t think anymore. Nope. Too much.
“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people...”
– Paulo Coelho (via inspire2lead)
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honestly
For all that I claim to hate drama…I am a total drama queen.
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So I just accidentally realized/discovered WAY too many things in one slightly drunken night. My head hurts.
My friends are sweet, though.
“The best mind-altering drug is the truth.”
– Lily Tomlin (via elige)
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So I just finished the first "Twilight" book
Setting aside for a moment the fact that there is absolutely nothing interesting about Stephenie Meyer’s writing style or character development…I just want to point out that when you are a 17-year-old girl and a man you barely know follows you around town and admits to sneaking into your room every night, you should probably call the police. This is not romantic. It’s creepy....
“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via 4mbivalent)
“Am I arguing that girls and women shouldn’t be held responsible for their...”
– Emily Maguire, Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity. (via starsgowaltzing)
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“Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, a long rehearsal for a show that...”
– Amelie (via serenekitchen)
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the...”
– Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (via 4mbivalent) 