26 5 / 2012
The things I would do to these men…
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25 5 / 2012
"The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life. And there is evidence that just as the brain responds to depictions of smells and textures and movements as if they were the real thing, so it treats the interactions among fictional characters as something like real-life social encounters…. Just as computer simulations can help us get to grips with complex problems such as flying a plane or forecasting the weather, so novels, stories and dramas can help us understand the complexities of social life…. Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined."
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23 4 / 2012
"There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
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22 4 / 2012
Things I’ve Learned
Here are some things I’ve probably learned by now. Please note that some of these things I should have learned by now but it hasn’t quite set in yet. Please note that some of these things I am so, so close to finally getting. I am a sloppy work-in-progress.
- Everything is worse and better and bigger at night and in the exact moment you’re having it, and then it’s just ‘oh wah no big, dirt off my shoulders I wasn’t sobbing ALL NIGHT or anything’
- cry it out, run it out, talk it out, ice cream it out, just get it out of heeeaaah
- I don’t care how stupid this SOUNDS but wearing a good nice outfit sure makes you feel great as hell, so do that
- Smile every once and a while and sit up straight and people won’t constantly think you’re the lady in the corner who’s gonna burn down the place
- You can’t burn down the place but you should fantasize about it
- I don’t care how old you are, fantasize as much as possible
- It’s your body, goddamnit, so you decide what to do with it, okay POLITICS?!??!
- If you are going out drinking, leave a bottle of iced tea in the fridge for the morning and you will liken yourself to a GOD come sunrise
- Call your mother or whatever family member is required to hear your boring bullshit because most people don’t want to hear that
- If you have to ask a friend if “YOUR CRUSH” likes you, they don’t.
- No really
“If you’re a good person, you tip well and cry at books”
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13 4 / 2012
The Frenemy.: If The World Ended
If the world ended tonight, everyone knows we’d end up on the roof. The roof is where you go when there’s fireworks, when you need lemonade in silence, and when everything is over. There would be whiskey for me just when the fires started. A real display. I’d throw the empty bottle thirty feet…
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12 4 / 2012
"I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on."
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05 4 / 2012
DO ME, thanks
Dear god, I want to fuck him. That is all. Especially if he is 5’6”.
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05 4 / 2012
"You’re going to discover that conversations are best at 4am. The heavier the eyelids, the sincerer the words. Those are the talks you’ll remember. It’s ok not to know the answer and silence is not awkward. It’s shared, so share it more often than not."
Jeff Stuckel (via loveyourchaos)
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02 4 / 2012
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What my kids remind me, every evening, is that books are not always parboiled eggplant or overcooked asparagus; they’re not giant horse pills stuffed with mental-multivitamin-dust meant to be choked down before dessert.
Some books are roasted lobsters soaked with butter; some are molten tubs of dark chocolate; some are luminescent piles of narcotics.
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