February 2012
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The difference between a passion that nourishes and one that denies you is that...
January 2012
15 posts
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ireadintothings:
Here is the code that you can add to your blog to go dark in opposition to SOPA and PIPA! Raise your voice, Internet! Have YOU joined the strike?
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Mapping Stereotypes Project →
December 2011
5 posts
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from Sam Donsky, "Midnight in Paris"
poetryeater:
Art means saying “here we go!” a lot; money means not carrying an umbrella sometimes. These are the things that will deliver us from zero. Texture of midnight, day of rest, pageant for the change you wish to see in these clothes. Paris: “I have done something terrible” — this weather is the last art lesson we may ever need. Evidence suggests beauty looks guilty even from the moon.
November 2011
12 posts
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Podróż przecież nie zaczyna się w momencie, kiedy ruszamy w drogę, i nie kończy,...
– ~Kieślow (pisarz)
And now you stand like a lonely tree
open to all the winds and birds
And now...
– Anna Kamienska, from “On a Sonnet by Leah Goldberg” in Astonishments, trans. Curzon and Drabik (via proustitute)
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All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain...
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Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
– Elizabeth Taylor (via imfantasyparade)
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Yes, the physicality of language. The tongue married to the heart, and emotions...
– Yusef Komunyakaa (via proustitute)
October 2011
13 posts
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A city … is a heart whose beat you can no longer hear.
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions I, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
I’ve always had this sense that the unexamined fact is like a rattlesnake. It’s...
– Joan Didion (via proustitute)
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I, too, entered a city, I cannot remember when, and since then I have gone on,...
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (via proustitute)
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