February 2012
Feb 11th
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excerpt from "A Hunger So Honed" by Tracy K. Smith
We want so much, When perhaps we live best In the spaces between loves, That unconscious roving, The heart its own rough animal.
Feb 11th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (disputed), as quoted by Ronald Wright in A Short History of Progress
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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“The truth that lies closest, however, is only this: that you are beating your...”
– Franz Kafka
Feb 8th
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“There is beauty as well as hatred in [Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’], and it...”
– Jeanette Winterson
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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On Last Lines by Suzanne Buffam
The last line should strike like a lover’s complaint. You should never see it coming. And you should never hear the end of it.
Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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“How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating...”
– Chuang-tzu
Feb 1st
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January 2012
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its...”
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via proustitute)
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points...”
– Khaled Hosseini, from A Thousand Splendid Suns
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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to Zelda from F. Scott Fitzgerald, 26th April 1934 You and I have been happy; we haven’t been happy just once, we’ve been happy a thousand times. The chances that the spring, that’s for everyone, like in the popular songs, may belong to us too—the chances are pretty bright at this time because as usual, I can carry most of contemporary literary opinion, liquidated, in the hollow of my hand—and...
Jan 31st
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“[This is] a culture that holds private property as sacrosanct above public...”
– Eric Zimmerman
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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“I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole...”
– Laurie Anderson explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick
Jan 30th
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“Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men’s needs.”
– Ana Castillo
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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I, the Survivor by Bertolt Brecht
I know of course: it’s simply luck That I’ve survived so many friends. But last night in a dream I heard those friends say of me: ‘Survival of the fittest’ And I hated myself.
Jan 30th
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ListenSwingin’ Party, The Replacements
Jan 30th
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“I tried not to do anything in life that ashamed the child I was.”
– José Saramago 
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels....”
– Joseph Heller, from Catch 22 
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“She had stayed a virgin so she wouldn’t be called a tramp or a slut; had married...”
– Fannie Flagg
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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