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from “A Summer Garden” by Louise Glück
How quiet the garden is; no breeze ruffles the Cornelian cherry. Summer has come.
How quiet it is now that life has triumphed. The rough
pillars of the sycamores support the immobile shelves of the foliage,
the lawn beneath lush, iridescent—
And in the middle of the sky, the immodest god.
Things are, he says. They are, they do not change; response does not change.
How hushed it is, the...
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“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player,...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from Notes from Underground
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“And yet, it’s hard not to feel inundated with this discourse about how you’re...”
– Chelsea Fagan, I Am Not Like Other Girls
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“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain...”
– Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre
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“I love you, O men, as few have loved you. All my inner being is suffused with...”
– Giovanni Papini, from Un Uomo Finito
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“You know, for every dollar a man makes
a woman makes 63 cents.
Now, fifty...”
– Laurie Anderson, from “Beautiful Red Dress”
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“The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul,...”
– Thomas McGuane
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“What song, what home,
what calm or what clarity
can I not quite come to,...”
– Christian Wiman, from “Hard Night”
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“There’s no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one...”
– Bernhard Schlink
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“The strangest thing. I came to the end of other people so quickly. Each new...”
– Arthur Phillips
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elizabitchtaylor:
film about a group of men getting into shenanigans= “comedy” film about a group of women getting into shenanigans= “chick flick”
film about a friendship between two men= “buddy flick” film about a friendship between two women= “chick flick”
emotional film about father/son relationships= “drama” emotional film about mother/daughter relationships= “chick flick”
film about a...
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Unsayable by Laura Cronk
I’m in love, I’m in love, I’m in love. But there are other problems. I’m trying to be clear. I’m in love and there are other problems.
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“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn...”
– Buckminster Fuller
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“I hear the wind blow,
And I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the...”
– Fernando Pessoa
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“Are there hilarious rape jokes out there, twinkling and waiting to be discovered...”
– Margaret Lyons
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