February 2012
127 posts
“Sometimes I take out my passport, look at the photograph of myself (not very good, etc.) just to see if I exist”
Richard Brautigan
“The wax has melted but the dream of flight persists. I, Icarus, though grounded in my flesh have one bright section in me where a bird night after starry night while I’m asleep unfolds its phantom wings and practices.”
P.K. Page, This Heavy Craft
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in the meantime, i was busy not giving a flying toss about someone’s grammar and spelling errors, because i would rather choose to become stressed about anything else, for example:
quite literally anything else in the universe
“As we have so recently and publicly discussed, girls and women have ‘anger issues’ in that they are socialized to not demonstrate anger, but instead to sublimate it where it can sometimes then manifest itself as anxiety or depression. Girls are not born less angry and more anxious, they’re rewarded for being less angry and more anxious. So, it should come as no surprise to anyone that...
“my dear, I say, there are men out there now picking tomatoes, lettuce, even cotton, there are men and women dying under the sun, there are men and women dying in factories for nothing, a pittance… I can hear the sound of human lives being ripped to pieces… you don’t know how lucky we are…”
Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
me: this is a bad idea and will only make me sad
me: okay let's do it
“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you’re loving somebody when you’re just using them. This only looks like love.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
(be careful)
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“He builds a castle by demolishing a country.”
– Arab proverb
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
– Viktor Frankl
“There is no clean way to enter the heavy machinery of the heart. Just jagged cutthroat questions. Just the glitter and blood production.”
Mindy Nettifee, This is the Nonsense of Love
“I stare at your lips and fall in love with the way they form what you say.”
Tyler Knott Gregson
“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most...”
– President Jimmy Carter
“You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.”
Andrea Gibson
oh i see how it is
bears can hibernate and it’s a “part of nature”
but when i do it’s “creepy” and “antisocial”