March 2012
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“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public;...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
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“A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his...”
– Gurdjieff
February 2012
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“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double...”
– Amanda Marcotte
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Fade as a passing breath. —Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
Fades as the splendor fades from the sky, when the sun sinks to sleep.—Anonymous
Fade away like some fabled city of mythology. —Anonymous
Fade like autumn leaves, and fade and die/with no kind hand to raise the head and gently close the dying eye. —Anonymous
Fade … like ghosts prohibited the day. —Anonymous
Fades like an unfixed photograph....
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All of Me, Billie Holiday
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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you
is...”
– Margaret Atwood
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“The claim that sex workers ‘sell our bodies’ is not only logically...”
– Maggie McNeal
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by Arseny Tarkovsky Now the summer has passed. It might never have been. It is warm in the sun, But it isn’t enough. All that might’ve occurred Like a five-fingered leaf Fluttered into my hands, But it isn’t enough. Neither evil nor good Has yet vanished in vain, It all burned and was light, But it isn’t enough. Life has been as a shield, And has offered protection. I have been most fortunate, But...
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Another Rainy Saturday, My Bloody Valentine
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“[…] most of us would rather love than be loved. Almost everyone wants to...”
– Carson McCullers
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“It wasn’t worth it.”
– Louis B. Mayer, last words
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“All white women in this nation know that their status is different from that of...”
– bell hooks
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Traveler by Heather Sommer
Your first time out of the country of your own skin, I didn’t bring a map.
You always hated that I’d been lucky enough to pick my way through streets
I couldn’t pronounce to find cathedrals, graveyards. If you were a city, you said,
I’d only like to know your suburbs.
If you were a city, I said, I’d like to know your poor neighborhoods, your inner parts.
Read your graffiti. Drink your tap...
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“I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.”
– Pier Paolo Pasolini
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“She said she meant
that friends are like magic tricks
but love is genuinely...”
– Catie Rosemurgy, excerpt from “Doctor: Miss Peach Is a Doll inside a Doll inside a Doll”
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“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on the recent debate in America about contraception
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Somebody That I Used to Know, Gotye feat. Kimbra
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