June 2012
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Hmm. By Eleanor Davis.
Jun 1st
May 2012
26 posts
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
May 30th
“Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the...”
– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World (via emotional-algebra)
May 30th
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May 29th
12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetry →
juliasegal: 1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - “I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain!  2. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot …I will show you something different from either Your...
May 29th
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“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
– Charles Bukowski (via jalousie)
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than...”
– Charles de Montesquieu
May 24th
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May 13th
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electrikthunder: Chairlift - Met Before (Girls & Bass version)
May 12th
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May 11th
“Rien ne distingue les souvenirs des autres moments : ce n’est que plus tard...”
– Chris Marker
May 11th
“Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via whimsicalele)
May 10th
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May 9th
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On synesthesia.
May 8th
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter”
– John Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
May 8th
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May 8th
7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain →
May 7th
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“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
– Banksy (via nirvikalpa)
May 6th
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“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
May 3rd
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April 2012
14 posts
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
“it’s a lonely world of frightened people, just as it has always been.”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
Apr 29th
“2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 4. Be in love with yr life 5....”
– Jack Kerouac, http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-technique.html
Apr 28th
Apr 28th
“long ago, among other lies, they were taught that silence was bravery.”
– Charles Bukowski - Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (via henrycharlesbukowski)
Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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“look, Mike, no man is invincible. some day you’ll be sent mad by eyes...”
– Charles Bukowski, “Love is a Dog From Hell”
Apr 26th
“she didn’t do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.”
– Charles Bukowski, “Love is a Dog From Hell”
Apr 26th
Apr 18th
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Apr 15th
“I liked looking on at other people in critical situations. If there was a road...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Apr 15th
March 2012
6 posts
“for I consume and am consumed”
– Charles Bukowski, “A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself”
Mar 30th
“my heart like something cut away from cancer will feel and beat again feel and...”
– Charles Bukowski, “A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself”
Mar 30th
“Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty...”
– William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Mar 29th
“Ruder forms survive.”
– Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
Mar 11th
“Remarkable that a person can comprehend so little and yet live in such a complex...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned
Mar 11th
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February 2012
1 post
“nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly...”
– sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems  - Charles Bukowski (via spiritd3sire )
Feb 18th
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