May 2012
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May 29th
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“The only reason ‘coming out’ is still even a thing is because it’s...”
– Anonymous (via victor-the-richter)
May 29th
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May 29th
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“Nothing is erotic which isn’t also, with the wrong person, deeply revolting.”
– Alain de Botton
May 29th
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May 29th
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May 28th
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slaglady: danteagle: It’s as hot as Chris Hemsworth out today. better put on a sweater then.
May 28th
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May 28th
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May 28th
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“Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with...”
– D.H. Lawrence
May 27th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 22nd
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“To me, no man is himself, he is the sum of his past. There is no such thing...”
– William Faulkner
May 22nd
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May 21st
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“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man made, and it can...”
– Nelson Mandela
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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“If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked.”
– Gilles Deleuze
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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A Grave (excerpt) by Marianne Moore
Man, looking into the sea— taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have it to    yourself— it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing but you cannot stand in the middle of this: the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave.
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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“Before art can be human it must learn to be brutal.”
– J. M. Synge
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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David Baker: You’ve said now two or three times, as a poem comes to you, that you will hear the poem. What do you hear? W. S. Merwin: At some point Yeats one day heard, “That is no country for old men.” David Baker: He heard it intact. W. S. Merwin: Yes, just like that. And they were words which he’d used all his life. He may have even heard that phrase all his life. Never thought anything of...
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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“People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of...”
– excerpt from Teju Cole’s essay “The White Savior Industrial Complex”.
May 21st
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May 20th
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May 20th
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“To love one person Forges a new language, Those who’ve been there, Know.”
– A. S. Kline, from “All The Tongues”
May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is...”
– John Cage
May 20th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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recalcitrancy: one day when i am old and gray and i know that my time is coming, i will gather my family members around me. they will come from all over the country and tearfully stand around my bed as my breaths come slower and slower. with pained movements, i will gesture for them to lean in to hear my last words, this last piece of wisdom before i shuffle off this mortal coil and join the...
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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“Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.”
– Louis Aragon
May 19th
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May 19th
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“man fucks woman: subject, verb, object.”
– Catharine MacKinnon
May 18th
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May 18th
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Brutal by Andrea Cohen
Brutal to give the prisoner a window— a blue sky glimpse— as if an afterlife existed. Brutal for you to parade in a body in the same room where I dream you.
May 18th
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May 18th
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ListenFast As You Can, Fiona Apple I don’t know...
May 17th
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