November 2010
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Theme in Yellow
by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. On the last of October When dusk is fallen Children join hands And circle round me Singing ghost songs And love to the harvest moon; I am a jack-o’-lantern With terrible teeth And the children know I am fooling.
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October 2010
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“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that...”
– Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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“After one has abandoned a belief in god, poetry is that essence which takes its...”
– Wallace Stevens (via judesan)
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by Mary Oliver to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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“I am the third sex, not a man trying to be a woman. It is your society’s...”
– Mona Ahmed
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“You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with...”
– Dag Hammarskjold, Markings (via 108zenbooks)
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10/29/10, there were no recorded deaths today.
Every documented person who was alive yesterday is also alive today. The last known day that this has occurred was August 13th, 1978. (via tigersmilk)
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“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if...”
– Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people...”
– Robert Pirsig (via styleandsubstance)
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Dorian Gray syndrome
Dorian Gray Syndrome (DGS) denotes a cultural and societal phenomenon characterized by an excessive preoccupation with the individual’s own appearance accompanied by difficulties coping with the aging process and with the requirements of maturation. Sufferers of Dorian Gray Syndrome are heavy users of cosmetic medical procedures and products in an attempt to preserve their youth.
The name...
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“She loved the sea only for the sake of its storms, and the green fields only...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via petitessedespassions)
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Approach of Winter
by William Carlos Williams
The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go or driven like hail stream bitterly out to one side and fall where the salvias, hard carmine— like no leaf that ever was— edge the bare garden.
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WatchDiane Sawyer: So, have you thought— how many women [to have serve on the Supreme Court] is enough? Sandra Day O’Connor: What? [laughs] Ruth Ginsberg: How many women—? Diane Sawyer: How many women would be enough? Ruth Ginsberg: Nine. Sandra Day O’Connor: We’re not there yet. Ruth Ginsberg: Well, there’ve been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?
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“The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen...”
– Arundhati Roy (via newfilosofee)
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