February 2012
9 posts
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings...”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“I want to know what the kite called itself when it got away”
– Andrea Gibson
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“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense...”
– Charles Lamb
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the...”
– Samuel Lover
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“As long as I can do my work and continue to enjoy myself working on words … I...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, poet Donald Hall reflects on aging, writing and his life. (via nprfreshair)
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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
– John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise...”
– Theodore I. Rubin
January 2012
18 posts
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“Kieth Blanchard, then Maxim’s editor-in-chief, told me, “It’s a sexy night!”
To me “sexy” is based on the inexplicable overlap of character and chemicals that happens between people…the odd sense that you have something primal in common with another person whom you may love, or you may barely even like, that can only be expressed through the...
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“The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Not everybody enjoys baseball or even fishing, but every person is obsessed with...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that...”
– Ingrid Bergman
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“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.”
– Nietzsche
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“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no...”
– John Keats
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“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is,...”
– Bob Dylan
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“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other...”
– Audre Lorde
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“Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through....”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace...”
– Angela Thomas
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“I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”
– Carl Sandburg
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“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the...”
– Alexis Carrel
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...”
– Andre Gide
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop...”
– Ayn Rand
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“It goes Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Valentine’s Day. Is that fair...”
– Laura Kightlinger
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“New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual...”
– Mark Twain
December 2011
13 posts
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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via thatkindofwoman)
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“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who...”
– Alphonse De Lamartine
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“Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your...”
– James Whitcomb Riley
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the...”
– Mark Twain (via bardsandsages)
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“Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where...”
– Charles Bukowski
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.”
– Nietzsche
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“‘Why?’ is a very quick question to ask, and quite a long question to...”
– Felicity Aston
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“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow...”
– Herman Melville
Anonymous asked: youhunterohyouhunter
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“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult,...”
– Katharine Hepburn
November 2011
10 posts
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“I was excited to go. I put on my straw hat and walking downtown, but when I got...”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids
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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO FOLLOWS AND REBLOGS MY...
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“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...”
– Thomas Mann
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“Jan imagines that the Greek gods at first passionately participated in the...”
– Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus
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“A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.”
– Roald Dahl
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-What do you think about the Beat Generation?
-I don’t think it’s anything. I don’t think it exists. There’s no such thing as the Beat Generation.
-You don’t consider yourself beat?
-Hell no! I don’t consider myself beat, or beatified.
-What are you if not beat?
-An individual, nothing.
-They say to be beat is to be nothing.
-I don’t care what they say, there’s no Beat Generation.
-Don’t...
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“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be...”
– Marya Hornbacher (via aeloquence)
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“I like people too much or not at all.”
– Sylvia Plath