February 2012
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“This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within...”
– Philip Larkin
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Spock: I need your advice.
McCoy: Then I need a drink.
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The Battle of Civil Rights
shitmystudentswrite:
Martin Luther King Jr. fought in the civil rights war with Abraham Lincoln to free all of the colored people.
American history, yo.
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“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more...”
– James Baldwin
(via lady-pilot)
I'm just this weird broad who reads too much.
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“These then were two very genuine experiences of my own. These were two of the...”
– Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women”
“I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me...”
– Maurice Sendak (via libraryland)
I do not feel good. Existentially or physically.*
*in case you were wondering.
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ashrat replied to your video: The Louvin Brothers, “Knoxville Girl” (1959) I’ve…
I’m intrigued; I just ordered said book. Is “Hog Tied Over You” by Tennessee Ernie Ford discussed in it? I must say I went through a similar musical phase independently, late in the college career.
I’m about half way through it now—it’s definitely worth a read if you harbor a taste for...
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“Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter...”
– E. E. Cummings, from “since feeling is first” (via the-final-sentence)
“It will be my final hour—I’ll be getting hit by a bus or something,...”
– the indomitable Sasha Patkin
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“Between 1960 and 1965 pop music was plagued by a rash of…unfortunate,...”
– Graeme Thompson, I Shot A Man in Reno
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“…I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth....”
– Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son
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“Am I doing your S&M?”
– O.W.K.
Things that were said to me at work today…
Really, it’s not what it sounds like. (I think?)
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libraryland:
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant – Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind -
— Emily Dickinson
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Erotic romance from Aphrodisia Kensington... or...
strandbooks:
Now you understand what working in a bookstore is really like.
When all else fails, I listen to the Beatles.
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“Nowadays, I see schoolkids bustling along the sidewalk, their large instrument...”
– James Wood, “The Fun Stuff: My life as Keith Moon”
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alelepants replied to your post: Fuck bitches.
they’re the defective ones. that shit makes me crazy.
softerthansound replied to your post: Fuck bitches.
I love you. Let’s fuck bitches and get money.
ladyellenor39 liked your post: Fuck bitches.
I love all of you.
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“Good music has the side effect of making us romanticize our own lives out of all...”
– Graeme Thompson, I Shot A Man in Reno
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Fuck bitches.
Today I was on the subway and there were three women standing together talking about one’s wedding ring and how her wedding was going to be “small” because she’d only invited 200 people and only had six bridesmaids, which was a lot less than most of the weddings she’d been to (the last one had twelve)…
I’m sorry but I don’t know why anyone would...