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19 May
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Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk…
— Dom Grelsch, in response to a journalist questioning him about his publication’s integrity, in CLOUD ATLAS
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19 May
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Most cities are nouns, but New York is a verb.
— JFK
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18 May
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You can show a lot with a look—it’s punctuation.
— Clint Eastwood
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17 May
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What value are education, breeding, and talent if one doesn’t have a pot to piss in?
— From CLOUD ATLAS by David Mitchell
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23 Apr
If description is a living thing, dark cherry hair and glass eyes, tilted away—I want to say something that will look at me.
— Allison Benis White
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23 Apr
What should I do with my mind? Think of the way it broke until the breaking is language.
—from Small Porcelain Head by Allison Benis White
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22 Apr
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He wishing he could squirm again where Hoot
is just ahead of rustlers, where William S
forgoes some deep advantage, & moves on,
where Hashknife Hartley having the matter taped
the rats are flying. For the rats
have moved in, mostly, and this is for real.
— John Berryman, from ‘THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND’ WITH PAUL MUNI. Feeling nostalgia for back in the day, when he was still a struggling young writer, having not yet made it, squirming and his life unformed.
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22 Apr
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Angelina Jolie talks Internet - 1994 [x]
Wise beyond her years.
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22 Apr
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This is how you feel when you’re formatting your thesis and preparing to move to the other side of the country and spending as much time as possible with the people you love before you do so, and then you get an email.
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22 Apr
BUT THERE IS ANOTHER METHOD.
— Olive Schreiner, by way of John Berryman’s epigraph to THE DREAM SONGS.
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22 Apr
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Grace to be born and live as variously as possible.
— Frank O’Hara
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22 Apr
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The Way Is Always Uncontrived
The Way is always uncontrived,
yet there’s nothing it doesn’t do.
If lords and monarchs could keep to it,
all beings would evolve spontaneously.
When they have evolved and want to act,
I would stabilize them with nameless simplicity.
Even nameless simplicity would not be wanted.
By not wanting, there is calm,
and the world will straighten itself.
-THE ESSENTIAL TAO
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22 Apr
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Should You Want to Contain
Should you want to contain something,
you must deliberately let it expand.
Should you want to weaken something,
you must deliberately let it grow strong.
Should you want to eliminate something,
you must deliberately allow it to flourish.
Should you want to take something away,
you must deliberately grant it.
This is called subtle illumination.
Flexibility and yielding
overcome adamant coerciveness.
Fish shouldn’t be taken from the depths;
the effective tools of the nation
shouldn’t be shown to others.
—THE ESSENTIAL TAO
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20 Apr
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WANT DAT HAIR. MERMAID BLONDE MERMAID GODDESS.
(Source: jaidenbatchler)
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20 Apr
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I hate ScarJo, but this speaks to me.
(Source: quentintarantinos)
