May 2012
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The only reason ‘coming out’ is still even a thing is because it’s...
– Anonymous (via victor-the-richter)
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Nothing is erotic which isn’t also, with the wrong person, deeply revolting.
– Alain de Botton
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slaglady: danteagle:
It’s as hot as Chris Hemsworth out today.
better put on a sweater then.
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Nobody knows you.
You don’t know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with...
– D.H. Lawrence
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To me, no man is himself, he is the sum of his past. There is no such thing...
– William Faulkner
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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man made, and it can...
– Nelson Mandela
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If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked.
– Gilles Deleuze
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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.
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Before art can be human it must learn to be brutal.
– J. M. Synge
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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...
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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”.
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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”
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is...
– John Cage
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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...
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Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.
– Louis Aragon
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man fucks woman:
subject, verb, object.
– Catharine MacKinnon
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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.
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