August 2010
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“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
– Oscar Wilde (via pendragons, lefay, futurisms, funeral, bloodisthenewblackk, lunarisms, smellslikesunshine)
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by Alta all the male poets write of orpheus as if they look back & expect to find me walking patiently behind them. they claim i fell into hell. damn them, i say. i stand in my own pain & sing my own song. (via obliviousunction)
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“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls,...”
– from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (via glitteranddie)
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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived...”
– John F. Kennedy (via azspot)
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gamblers all
by Charles Bukowski
sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way, and you walk to the bathroom, do your toilet, see that face in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my, but you comb your hair anyway, get into your street clothes, feed the cats, fetch the newspaper of horror, place it on the coffee...
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“He wrote me mad love letters to my old address; letters which I read only after...”
– Slava Mogutin (via -kadaver, obsoletedesolate)
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Hurricane Katrina: Police should protect lives... →
“Private property is not as important as people’s lives.” (via robot-heart-politics, suburbananarchist)
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“It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need...”
– Dave Barry (via bornonthe17th, quote-book, expressionsofatherapistfriend, neonloneliness)
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Martha, Tom Waits (via lovelybluepony)
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“I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s...”
– bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (via revolutionnow, tobia)
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Bisexual privilege? →
Sigh. Are we actually going to go there, playing the privilege hierarchy game? It’s divisive and it’s not helpful. How far do you want to take it? Is a white lesbian more or less privileged than a black bisexual? What if the lesbian were disabled, or the bisexual male? It’s sooooo fucking relative. You can’t know what personal oppression/privilege someone has (is the out bisexual who has been...
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“Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own...”
– Osho (via awakeinthedream, ilikewhatyousay)
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“… libertarianism tends to spring up when you start to believe human beings...”
– pandagon.net (via azspot, revolutionnow)
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Origins of belief in vampires
While the majority of vampire scholars focus on the cultural roots of vampire lore, some historians have looked to physical origins. There is no scientific evidence of actual vampires, but there are a number of real medical conditions that might result in vampiric behavior or appearance.
One of the most interesting “vampire diseases” is porphyria. Porphyria is a rare disease characterized by...
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“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient...”
– Aristotle (via lastchatwithphontaine, jjarichardson, ilikewhatyousay)
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“…we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not...”
– Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the Unites States of America: 1492-Present (via fuckyeahradicalquotes, adailyriot, adamquinn)
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