July 2011
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“I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“Why does one feel so different at night? Why is it so exciting to be awake when...”
– Katherine Mansfield, “At the Bay,” in The Garden Party, 1922
“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for...”
– Aldous Huxley
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milkteeth replied to your post: Today I met a boy who thought that studying…
As a Humanities student, I have been belittled for the past 3 years of my life by others in the science areas. You just really have to take a breather and ignore everyone, and make fun of them when they take really hard classes they dislike.
I know exactly what you mean. I’m now in my second year, and only...
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Today I met a boy who thought that studying history-to learn about past events for my own personal interest, progress and intellect-was ‘one of the most stupid, pointless major choices’ that he had ever heard.
Why is it so impossible for people, of both older generations and (seemingly) my own generation, to understand that education does NOT need to evolve into something that creates...
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I’ve been shaking my head for the past hour, watching tripe that currently comes in the form of ‘Hall Pass’ with my Dad. However, the moment I hear We Were Promised Jetpacks added in the background of a party scene with Owen Wilson creepin’, it jumped up to high on my acceptability radar
one song was all that it took, I’m so ashamed of myself
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“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for...”
– Stephen King, The Dark Tower
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The Genius Of The Crowd
by Charles Bukowski
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace those who preach god, need god those who preach peace do not have peace those who preach peace do...
“What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them...”
– Seth Godin
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AHSDHASJDASDASKJ FRIENDLY FIRES WERE SO AMAZING...
thehilltheviewandthelights:
Ed’s dancing!!!!!!
Touching Jack Savidge’s hand
Edd Gibson coming to our side to jam and smiling at us
Ed’s dancing!!!!
The intense dancing and moshing to every song
The crowd singing in sync
Ed’s dancing!!!!
Ending with Kiss of Life was just ASAFBSDFDSAHFJBDSAFDSHFBHJ FREAKIN AMAZING!!!!!! (I want to go back!!!)
Ed’s dancing!!!!!
In case you didn’t...
“There is a backpack in the mind
which over the years has become
filled with...”
– William Martin. (2000). Ancient advice for the second half of life. New York: The Experiment, p. 47.
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bigheartbeat:
“You Were a Kindness” - The...
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“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“Let’s not let anyone tell us that the Internet is going to murder the book,...”
– William Giraldi, Poets & Writers July/August 2011
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clavicola:
Residence on Earth represents a dark and dangerous moment in my life. It is poetry without an exit. I almost had to be reborn in order to get out of it. I was saved from that desperation of which I still can’t know the depths by the Spanish Civil War, and by events serious enough to make me meditate. At one time I said that if I ever had the necessary power, I would forbid the reading...
on going out to see the world | Eddie Kilowatt
everything is the same struggle everywhere
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New Navy, Zimbabwe
“What if there’s no God, and you only go around once and that’s it? Well, you...”
– from Hannah and Her Sisters (written and directed by Woody Allen, 1986)
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Watchchristmasonthemoon:
make my bub bubs bounce
what just happened
“But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose...”
– David Foster Wallace on Life and Work - WSJ.com
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A Post Gender Normative Man Tries to Pick Up a... →
BY Jesse Eisenberg
Hey, how’s it going? Mind if I sidle up? I saw you over here sitting alone and I thought, that’s fine. A woman should be able to self-sustain. In fact a lot of women are choosing to stay alone, what with advances in salary equitability and maternity extensions, and I think it’s an important and compelling trend.
I noticed that you were about to finish your drink and...
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Currently sitting in a crusades lecture.. inside the medical building and its theatres. Timetabling: making me seem smarter to the outside world since 2010.
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“In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might...”
– Don DeLillo, The Names
Manic Pixie Dream Girl →
Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a stock character in films. Film critic Nathan Rabin, who coined the term after seeing Kirsten Dunst in Elizabethtown, describes the MPDG as “that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and...
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When you "Fuck Up" (whether the fuck-up is minor... →
When you “Fuck Up” (whether the fuck-up is minor or major) practice the “Four A’s”.
Acknowledgment
Apology
Amends
Action
#1) Acknowledgment — is really important, IMO, because if you don’t realize what you actually did, and how it was “fucked up”, there’s a high probability that you are going to do it again — a very high probability. #2) Apology — is also really important — but it has to...
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Today was my first class of Ethics of Global Conflict. Despite the seriousness of the lecture, all educational benefit for me was lost because not only was the lecturer American.. he looked like Steve Carrell.
‘And so while Aquina’s theory can be applied to the Iraq war, it’s a lot more difficult then it seems becau- I’m Beyonce. Always.’
“It’s all wrong and I denounce it and it can all go to hell. I don’t believe in...”
– Jack Kerouac (via human-voices)
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