January 2012
2 posts
I cannot believe that I have done this.
How dare you shatter, you asshole?
It only took one bad lie. How much have I actually been lied to? How much of my life has, consequently, become a lie?
How does it become my fault?
If you let go of a crystal glass (on Earth, in the presence of gravity) from chest height, it will fall to the ground, and, most likely, break. But you let go. You made it break. So how can you be angry when it breaks? How can you blame the glass....
December 2011
3 posts
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“Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If...”
– Jacques Lipchitz (Sculptor)
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“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse...”
– Virginia Woolf
“Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.”
– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
November 2011
1 post
Surprise! /sarcasm
“A new Fairleigh Dickinson Public Mind Poll finds that the Sunday morning political shows on television “do the most to help people learn about current events, while some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who they don’t watch any news at all.”
Read on DailyKos:...
October 2011
4 posts
4 tags
“I wonder if it is possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”
– Andy Warhol
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can...”
– Carl Rogers
“People who have no other abilities have to do something that nobody would...”
– Dad speaks on Eminem
September 2011
3 posts
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what you do
Like lightening in your heart, an soupçon that seems to burn hot, you’re hanging on a thread that’s bound to drop.
As the curator of your core, an indicatively secure position, I’m waiting on the floor in my footprints.
A sordid smile, arms gravely outstretched. I warned you. You don’t know better. Don’t touch me. I’ll catch you. I can’t do this anymore....
“The word ‘phobic’ has its place when properly used, but lately...”
– David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day 145)
August 2011
4 posts
“By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from...”
– Tim O’Brien
“We often think that we have completed our study of “one” when we...”
– Sir Arthur Eddington
“If we want to get this economy moving again, we must stop the kind of political...”
– Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director
“When I see people dressed in hideous clothes that look all wrong on them, I try...”
– Andy Warhol
July 2011
2 posts
It’s acceptable to malfunction.
It’s an ongoing process.
High contrast, but not opposites,
efforts are ruining everything.
We’d best sit still.
You are so sure of yourself, but you're actually...
You are so sure of yourself, but you’re actually incorrect.
I try to correct you politely, so that the next time you talk about this, you’ll be properly-informed.
You reassert yourself again, this time with an I’m-older-than-you-and-therefore-I’m-correct attitude or a similar illogical attitude, which aggravates me because I tried to be polite in correcting you and you...
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
5 posts
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift....”
– Babatunde Olatunji
“The American people shouldn’t be subsidizing oil companies at a time when...”
– President Obama
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its...”
– Winston Churchill
“Instead of rejoicing and chanting, “USA! USA!” as if we had won a...”
– Regina Brett (PD, 5/3/11)
April 2011
7 posts
“By one estimate, the amount of polyethylene [plastic] produced in America every...”
– Susan Freinkel
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“What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is...”
– Francine Prose (“Reading Like a Writer” 43)
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My best ideas begin in the margins,
When I read, I have a pen and a slip of paper nearby - not a pad. The paper cannot be blank. A scrap piece of mail - something printed already or, at fervent last resort, a clean napkin. I find that I can only jot notes on non-white surfaces or my hand. Blank paper and large notepads are too daunting, seemingly imploring a stroke of genius.
Likewise, when I write, I always have reading material...
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“Whenever you hear someone say, “The government should be run like a...”
– “National Debt for Beginners: NPR”
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
– John W. Gardner
March 2011
15 posts
4 tags
“Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint,...”
– David Sedaris
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Más rud é, lá amháin, agus a fhaigheann tú múscail go bhfuil tú ag iarraidh orm, agus a thosaíonn do chroí a iontas ar an talamh i gcás ina raibh mé in ann a bheith, tá mé ag smaoineamh gur b’fhéidir go mbainfidh tú ag teacht ar ais anseo go dtí an áit gur mhaith linn bualadh le chéile agus feicfidh tú ag fanacht dom tú ar an cúinne na sráide
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“Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Teach a woman to fish, and...”
– Hillary Clinton
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“Without respect, love is lost. Without caring, love is boring. Without honesty,...”
– Katherine Schwarzenegger
“Without expression, even the greatest of loves can die.”
– Robert Steinberg
“We take each other’s consciousness on faith because after 2,000 years of...”
– Daniel Gilbert, Psychiatrist, Harvard University (found in his publication: “What We Believe But Cannot Prove”)
girl walk // all day →
girl walk // all day is seventy-one-minute “music video of epic proportions,” according to director and producer Jacob Krupnick who also operates ShootBooth, a…
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Caring what the garbage men think
“Today, surprisingly, my roommate made a nice meal. Within an hour, I started throwing up. When I confronted her, she confessed that she’d used long expired ingredients, including meat, because she didn’t want the garbage men to think she’s ‘the type who wastes food.’ FML”
(View the original post on fmylife.com.)
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality...”
– Dr. Seuss
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“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”
– Benjamin Whorf
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people who get offended when you say gay
straight teenage females
pansexuals
people who don’t get offended
gays
lesbians
everyone else
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