January 2010
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“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
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-Albert Camus (via uppereastside) (via tobia)
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“‘Culture’ is everything we don’t have to do. Culture consists of the gratuitous stylistic extras that we add to the things we do have to do. You have to eat, but you don’t have to decorate elaborately prepared curries with silver leaf. You have to move around, but you don’t have to dance. Culture is a biological drive for humans. It is not something that we...
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“The scene I had just witnessed brought back a lot of memories – not of things I...”
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-Hunter S. Thompson (via whokilled)
December 2009
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“Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.”
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-Banksy
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Choices
by Tess Gallagher
I go to the mountain side of the house to cut saplings, and clear a view to snow on the mountain. But when I look up, saw in hand, I see a nest clutched in the uppermost branches. I don’t cut that one. I don’t cut the others either. Suddenly, in every tree, an unseen nest where a mountain would be.
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“You take somebody that cries their goddamn eyes out over phony stuff in the...”
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-J.D. Salinger
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Watchlyriquediscorde:
Chelsea Hotel No. 2 (live), Rufus Wainwright, with a backstory by Leonard Cohen
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“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if...”
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-John Green, Looking for Alaska
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beautifulordinaire:
“One of the chief obstacles to this perfection of selfless charity is the selfish anxiety to get the most out of everything, to be a brilliant success in our own eyes and in the eyes of other men. We can only get rid of this anxiety by being content to miss something in almost everything we do. We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain...
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“There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They...”
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-Greta Garbo
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Women at war face sexual violence
In her new book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, Helen Benedict examines the experience of female soldiers serving in the US military in Iraq and elsewhere.
Here, in an article adapted from her book, she outlines the threat of sexual violence that women face from their fellow soldiers while on the frontline, and provides testimony from three of the women she...
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“We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they...”
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-George Bernard Shaw (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
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kelseymcardle:
The Boat Dreams from the Hill,...
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“So this is the fact: our consumerism is slowly killing the planet like dropping one little grain of salt on a slug one grain at a time. But this earth is not defenseless. When events happen that threaten it, it kills those threats. It has done it several times before. Hope all the junk we keep consuming and will keep consuming at accelerated rates for the next millenia is worth it. The top 10% of...
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“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but...”
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-Virginia Woolf
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Blue
by Carl Phillips
As through marble or the lining of certain fish split open and scooped clean, this is the blue vein that rides, where the flesh is even whiter than the rest of her, the splayed thighs mother forgets, busy struggling for command over bones: her own, those of the chaise longue, all equally uncooperative, and there’s the wind, too. This is her hair, gone from white...
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“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
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-Ray Bradbury (via nihilnoetia) (via delacroix) (via anastasivictoria)
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homeofthevain:
Nub, The Jesus Lizard
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“Well, to begin with, nobody, and I mean nobody, can talk a junkie out of using....”
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-from Drugstore Cowboy
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I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm...
— Euan Uglow (via tobia)
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