March 2012
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“I don’t know. Seems like when they get started they don’t leave a...”
– “My Old Man”; In Our Time; Ernest Hemingway
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to the girl judging e-readers on the shuttle:
I love books. I love my kindle (fire). I love to read from every genre. My kindle is for those sensational books, the ones you read once and forget about - the games of hunger, the trilogies of millenium, the dictionary for lovers, etc.
When something gets to me, I’ll buy it to keep in my physical collection. When a book is worth holding and marking up and rereading and thinking over and...
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I never thought of phone calls as personal - obviously, compared with face-to-face interaction, any form of technology seems lacking. But really, they can be so intimate. How often do you call someone to have a really good conversation? When you can not meet in person, how often do you turn to that medium? You don’t have to be intimate with a person, but a phone call can be so vulnerable....
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“I’ve stared discrimination in the face hundreds of times and that was just...”
– Nathan Lane
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The New Yorker: Poem to Daniel Pearl →
Note: A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in Los Angeles with the parents of Daniel Pearl, a brilliant and courageous reporter for the Wall Street Journal who, ten years ago this month, was kidnapped and slaughtered by terrorists in Pakistan. At the time of his death, Danny’s wife, Mariane, was pregnant with their son. In the videotape that the terrorists forced Danny to make before they...
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lewd, crude, crass.: →
masturboner:
i really dont care about sustainability, truly.
dead topic to me.
the easy path.
the trendy path.
architecture for the people, not the environment, please.
its getting overrated, up in hurr.
make a sustainable skyscraper?
well, first, lets not make a skyscraper.
that would solve a lot of problems.
think about it.
build low.
get down and dirty.
why do you tell me to build...
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“combien?”
looking at engagement photos instead of writing my paper due in 8 hours. i don’t even know who i am anymore.
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“Win! [Pause.] Oh this is a happy day, this will have been another happy day!...”
– Winnie; Happy Days; Samuel Beckett
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“if there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for...”
– Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (United States v. Schwimmer, 1929)
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“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“Saudade (Portuguese): The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is...”
– “the haunting desire for a lost love, or for an imaginary, impossible, never-to-be-experienced love.”
The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren’t Translatable Into English
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“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace (via tarts) (via unicornology, sometimesagreatnotion) (via tothepersoninthebelljar) (via pinkeezy) (via libraryland) (via masturboner)
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Watchwhat’s that? why yes, yes, i would make love to your voice, robin thicke.
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I’m so sad right now I can’t even sleep.
I mean… it wasn’t Flowers for Algernon heart-stopping-tearless-wracking-pain-inducing, but it was so
somehow
real
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has always been hard for me to pick up
now that I was required to read it for class, well… I’m depressed.
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“Walter, Franzen writes in Freedom, “had never liked cats. They seemed to him the...”
– oh, jonathan franzen. 