February 2012
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If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay,...
– Kurt Vonnegutt A Man Without a Country
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And every map is like this, every map facilitates some living by virtue of...
– Denis Wood, The Power of Maps
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”Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that...
– - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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and thus ended the "semester without boy...
DO NOT WANT.
January 2012
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John Steinbeck on love
New York, November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First – if you are in love – that’s a good thing – that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second – There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing...
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A brief treatise on honey.
when I boil my tea
I like to put the honey
in
first
so that when the water boils in
it seeps with the chai and chamomile and earls of grey. And
honey
is why I say
my favorite food is baklava
because it is the most socially
acceptable
way to consume so much
sticky
goodness
in public. And so,
when I call you
hun
I am of course, abbreviating
and not because I want to mimic
the...
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hannanaphone asked: xio xio xio hi
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December 2011
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feeling...destructive.
I just don’t want things. okay? no. things. items. none. no thank you. not what I’m here for.
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All I know is I’m losing my mind,” Franny said. “I’m...
– Franny Glass, Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
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I’m sorry. I’m awful,” she said. “I’ve just felt...
– Franny Glass, Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
suburbia sucks
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I needed to save myself. I needed to remind myself of what I like to do, what I...
– Annie Leibovitz
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