August 2012
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“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be...”
– Charles Dickens
Aug 1st
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May 2012
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milksop |ˈmilkˌsäp|
noun a person who is indecisive and lacks courage.
May 30th
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A Potpourri of Pooches- NOVA →
A great article on the evolution of dogs!
May 25th
When I try to blend in
thetimeistudiedabroad: But I actually look like: I felt like this literally every day in France!
May 24th
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“The sound of silence is all the instruction You’ll get”
– Jack Kerouac, Book of Haikus (via odetoharriet)
May 23rd
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May 14th
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May 12th
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“i often repeat myself and the second time’s a lie i love you i love you see...”
– Andrea Gibson (via seraphimonawhim)
May 11th
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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.
May 6th
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May 1st
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April 2012
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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
– Albert Einstein
Apr 14th
March 2012
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100 Best First Lines from Novels →
How many have you read? I haven’t read enough…
Mar 11th
January 2012
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profligacy
noun. 1. reckless extravagence 2. shameless dissoluteness
Jan 8th
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1680
Sometimes with the Heart Seldom with the Soul Scarcer once with the Might Few — love at all. - Emily Dickinson
Jan 5th
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December 2011
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Dec 30th
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“Facebook is the gateway to all my sexual encounters.”
– Patrick Kolb (cousin)
Dec 28th
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“You can go amazing places when you quit stepping on the breaks.”
– Dr. Larry Iverson
Dec 19th
Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 7th
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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.
Dec 1st
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November 2011
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Nov 27th
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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...
Nov 22nd
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Nov 18th
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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...
Nov 15th
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Nov 3rd
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Nov 1st
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Wind too strong —empty nest At midnight Jack Kerouac Book of Haikus, p 137.
Nov 1st
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October 2011
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thanatopsis
[than-uh-TOP-sis] -noun a view or contemplation of death.
Oct 31st
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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)
Oct 31st
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September 2011
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Sep 24th
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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...
Sep 16th
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Sep 16th
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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
Aug 22nd
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Aug 22nd
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“Isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born?...”
– Richard Dawkins
Aug 22nd