May 2013
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“There are eight million naked cities in this naked city — they dispute and...”
– “The Colossus of New York,” Colson Whitehead (via commovente)
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“It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one’s self...”
– “On Keeping A Notebook,” Joan Didion (via commovente)
April 2013
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bigbardafree:
switching on your computer before you make yourself food so by the time you come back your computer is turned on and waiting for you like a naked lover
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“did you just order a $7.83 shake?”
– pulp fiction, adjusted for inflation (via pondishly)
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“There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
(via primordia)
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“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via losed)
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“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via pax-caelestis)
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”
– George Carlin (via stylistnotions)
March 2013
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“They stopped thinking with an almost painful relief, stopped seeing; they only...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via youngfolksociety)
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Anonymous asked: ...on the other hand, it has a peculiar relevance not unlike that of Marx: it's like an ideological well from which we draw some really nice, fresh water. Marxist states invariably fail, but from the 'well' of Marxism we get awesome shit: Medicare, trade unions, free education, etc. I like to look at Utopia in the same way. For example, the system of criminal punishment depicted in...
Anonymous asked: Orwell said that "Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness." This rings especially true here; More's Utopia would be dreadful to live in! But just because it's true doesn't mean it's relevant. On the one...
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“You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer,...”
– Dylan Moran (via nostracapulus)
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Anonymous asked: Hello dear, was wondering if you could tell me a bit about yourself? Are you from Australia? xxx
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