December 2010
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One day, you’re in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and...
– Love Is A Mix Tape by Robert Sheffield (via thechocolatebrigade) [reading this now. heartbreaking and wonderful.]
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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards...
– T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”
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i think i’m actually enjoying watching my life fall apart. how fucked up is that?
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Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through...
– NP by Banana Yoshimoto (via thechocolatebrigade)
projectgutenberg:
The writings of many of the women considered in this volume have sunk into an oblivion from which their intrinsic merit should have preserved them. This is partly due to the fact that nearly all the books on literature have been written from a man’s stand-point.
- Clara H. Whitmore, Preface to Women’s Work in English Fiction (1909) [full text]
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thedailywhat:
Early Bird Special: So you’ve survived the nuclear apocalypse. Now what?
[devour.]
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Oh! to Be Loved by a Poet...
“Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me — write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to...
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thatgirlpatty:
blindxbrigadier:
Deerhunter’s awe-inspiring performance of “Helicopter” on CONAN last night. This is undoubtedly the most incredible musical performance I have seen on any late night show.
Wow, Deerhunter, you are amazing.
oh wow. oh man. so awesome.
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