February 2012
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“We forget things that are amazing. All the time. All. The. Time. How often do...”
– Oliver Miller, Everything that I know about Jupiter (Thought Catalog)
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“And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not...”
– John Steinbeck on love in a letter to his son Thom
January 2012
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“When you sleep on your side, I like to map the constellations between your...”
– Stephanie Georgopulos, I Like Your Flaws (Thought Catalog)
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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope...”
– David Quammen (via prettybooks)
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“The tangles in some areas of the brain were getting to be so thick it was like...”
– David Schenk, The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s, Portrait of an Epidemic
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski
“Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams (via julie911)
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Burns (via honeyforthehomeless)
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“I don’t know what that’s supposed to tell you; nothing, except that...”
– Nicole Krauss, Great House
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“It is not a failure of our institutions so much as it is a window into what they...”
– Charles P. Pierce, The Brutal Truth About Penn State
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October 2011
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“Sometimes the wrong train can take us to the right place.”
– Paulo Coelho (via cordisre)
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“I wasn’t much of a petty thief. I wanted the world or nothing.”
– Charles Bukowski, Post Office
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“‘Grab hold of the nearest stranger. Don’t take the stranger’s hand, God knows...”
– YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: Miranda July: ‘Take a moment to connect with a stranger’
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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
– Arthur Miller (via kari-shma)
September 2011
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“When the light of each of all the sides was gone again in spinning, the light...”
– Blake Butler, There Is No Year
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“Let’s borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via suzywire)
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August 2011
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a...”
– The History Boys (via prettybooks)
July 2011
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“Ever see a cock pheasant, stiff and beautiful, ever’ feather drawed...”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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“There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way...”
– H.L. Mencken (via nevver)
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“Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a...”
– Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk (via thechocolatebrigade)
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I gave dating advice tonight, and it went something like this:
“If you’re gonna fuck up, fuck up so hard that you can never wonder what-if.”
June 2011
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There was this one New Years I remember when I sat out on the front step by myself and smoked cigars until I threw up.
Needless to say, I can’t smoke cigars anymore.
It’s probably for the best.
I told people about this for the first time today. And even though I don’t think they really understood, I could tell that it made them feel sad.
Once, my friend Matthew started...