August 2012
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be...
– Charles Dickens
May 2012
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milksop |ˈmilkˌsäp|
noun
a person who is indecisive and lacks courage.
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A Potpourri of Pooches- NOVA →
A great article on the evolution of dogs!
When I try to blend in
thetimeistudiedabroad:
But I actually look like:
I felt like this literally every day in France!
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The sound of silence
is all the instruction
You’ll get
– Jack Kerouac, Book of Haikus (via odetoharriet)
i often repeat myself
and the second time’s a lie
i love you
i love you
see...
– Andrea Gibson (via seraphimonawhim)
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pe·des·tri·an/pəˈdestrēən/
Noun: A person walking along a road or in a developed area. Adjective: Lacking inspiration or excitement; dull.
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April 2012
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
– Albert Einstein
March 2012
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100 Best First Lines from Novels →
How many have you read? I haven’t read enough…
January 2012
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profligacy
noun.
1. reckless extravagence
2. shameless dissoluteness
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1680
Sometimes with the Heart
Seldom with the Soul
Scarcer once with the Might
Few — love at all.
- Emily Dickinson
December 2011
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Facebook is the gateway to all my sexual encounters.
– Patrick Kolb (cousin)
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You can go amazing places when you quit stepping on the breaks.
– Dr. Larry Iverson
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Me: I just don't know, maybe I'm just a sort of slut.
Katey: I think if you're smart and safe about it, the world is your sexual equivalent of an oyster.
November 2011
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Clotilde
Anemone and columbine
Where gloom has lain
Opened in gardens
Between love and disdain
Made somber by the sun
Our shadows meet
Until the sun
Is squandered by night
Gods of living water
Let down their hair
And now you must follow
A craving for shadows
Guillaume Apollinaire. “Clotilde” from Alcools, English translation copyright 1995 Donald Revell and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan...
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Cut The Mustard
A zesty and confident phrase meaning to do something well and efficiently, to prove oneself beyond all expectations at completing a task or occupation.
The expression probably derives from mustard as slang for “the best”; a line from O. Henry’s Cabbages and Kings (1894) reads:
I’m not headlined in the bills, but I’m the mustard in the salad just the same.
From...
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Wind too strong
—empty nest
At midnight
Jack Kerouac
Book of Haikus, p 137.
October 2011
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thanatopsis
[than-uh-TOP-sis]
-noun
a view or contemplation of death.
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the trick of finding what you didn’t lose
(existing’s tricky:but to...
– -E.E. Cummings
From Selected Poems, edited by Richard Kennedy. (p. 100)
September 2011
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The past and present wilt—I have fill’d them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain...
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August 2011
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Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.
– My tea bag this morning
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Isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born?...
– Richard Dawkins