December 2011
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
– Ernest Hemingway
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come sleep with me: we won’t make love, love will make us
– Julio Cortázar (via theresaghostinmylungs)
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Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise...
– Stephen Colbert (via ruefle)
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I’m the lazy poet
Who needs to fall in love
In order to write anything.
It’s...
– Moscow, Autumn ‘88, Michael Attie (via aulacrimosa)
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I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it— and it’s still I love...
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via coralcolored)
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The pulsing symphony of a star enchanted me forever.
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pavorst:
Don’t trust them, they’re writers. They’ll love you so well, they’ll immortalize you. But when they stop loving you, they’ll fictionalize you and swallow you whole.
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I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
– Charles Bukowski
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people -...
– E. B. White (via pavorst)
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If I were a banned book, I’d be the dirty bits and the heaving breasts and the...
– If I Were A Banned Book « Thought Catalog
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We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a...
– Stephen Fry (via insomnambulist)
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
– Tennessee Williams
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what if, by duane ackerson
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We taught recombinant DNA to recombine, turning tumors into birds that freed themselves from the cages of our bodies, misery flying out the window, a flock of blackbirds that only comes back later to tap at the pain, begging for a few more scraps of us?
Or never returned, burrowing down into the ground like certain owls to sing their own dark songs almost muffled by the earth in...
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I am a cage, in search of bird.
– Franz Kafka