July 2012
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“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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June 2012
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“You ask for water.
I run ice along the length of your forehead.
It drips. I...”
– Elena Georgiou
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“Maybe she’s born with it. Or maybe she killed her sister for it. Either way,...”
– McSweeney’s Increasingly Threatening Taglines For Beauty Products (via snhf-digest)
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“When we observe a woman who seems hostile and fiercely independent some of the...”
– Walter Mischel, as quoted in Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point
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“The use of that […] phrase, ‘style over substance’ has always...”
– Stephen Fry
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And the days are not full enough by Ezra Pound
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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The Rat, The Walkmen
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“I endure myself.”
– E. M. Cioran, in response to a question concerning his daily routine
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“One of the things I mentioned […] was the idea of what I called ‘negative...”
– prozacpark, Reading Against Intent: Women in fiction, authorial intent, and negative reinvention
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“I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world,...”
– Salman Rushdie
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from the love letters of Zelda Fitzgerald
— I’ve never worn a ring before, they’ve always seemed so inappropriate—but I love to see this shining there so nice and white like our love—And it sorter says “soon” to me all the time—Just sings it all day long. — I’ve just found a Masonic chart and with the help of pencilled notes, I am about to fathom unfathomable secrets—If I could just stop reading “Scott” in every line I’d make more...
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whatafuckinfamilypicture:
It is hard to believe that every single dad ever was born on this day.
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“To be accused of a feminine style has haunted the psyches of women who write,...”
– Susan Brownmiller, Femininity
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“This is one moment,
But know that another
Shall pierce you with a sudden...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “Murder in the Cathedral:
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“Man is the creature who cannot get outside of himself, who knows others only in...”
– Marcel Proust
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“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come...”
– Victor Hugo
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“It is not your penis we have been envying all these years, but your freedom.”
– Sue Kedgley, via feministquotes
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