May 2012
“Why is the word yes so brief?
It should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that...”
– Vera Pavlova, from “If There Is Something to Desire” (via proustitute)
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter...”
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
with thanks to A.H. for introducing me.
(via hateshiploveship)
“How can you tell which part of the world you’d be happy in, and which you’d be...”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward (via hateshiploveship)
“Life is complicated, very complicated, whichever side you’re on.”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward (via hateshiploveship)
“And whoever listens to me: being
there, and not being, lost and found
and...”
– Ilya Kaminsky, from “Deaf Republic: 14” (via the-final-sentence)
At my new job, when I got my first assignment
whatshouldwecallme:
This is going to be me at OMB
“Mon amour ainsi l’ouragan
Déracine l’arbre qui crie”
– Guillaume Apollinaire, from “Les Collines” in Calligrammes (via proustitute)
Listen
At work, when my boss unexpectedly walks by
whatshouldwecallme:
When I'm having a bad day, and someone gives me a...
whatshouldwecallme:
I’m just like,
“Let us stifle under mud at the pond’s edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and...”
– Donald Hall, from “Affirmation” (via proustitute)
“So let the city do as it must and break us down
to dust and skeletons. I’m just...”
– Mark Wunderlich, from “Given in Person Only” in The Anchorage (via proustitute)
“If I could catch the feeling I would: the feeling of the singing of the real...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf (via hateshiploveship)
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Dear Coquette: On fun-sized advice. →
dearcoquette:
Dear Coquette,
Can you fall out of love with someone just as fast as you fell in love with them? A helluva lot faster, actually.
Why am I obsessed with my boyfriend’s ex? Because she used to touch your boyfriend’s penis.
Why would a woman claim to not be a feminist? Because the…
gahhh I love CokeTalk/Dear Coquette
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An Existential Life: In the beginning, God created... →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God…
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Dear Coquette: On fun-sized advice. →
dearcoquette:
Dear Coquette,
Can you fall out of love with someone just as fast as you fell in love with them? A helluva lot faster, actually.
Why am I obsessed with my boyfriend’s ex? Because she used to touch your boyfriend’s penis.
Why would a woman claim to not be a feminist? Because the…
“Malia and Sasha and a bunch of my friends and Michelle had sort of like a roast,...”
– President Obama
Obama Talks Singing, Kim Kardashian and Sports on ‘The View’
(via apsies)
“As for myself, I swung the door open. And there was the wordless, singing world....”
– Mary Oliver, from “Work, Sometimes” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (via proustitute)
“Which means that I carry within me people who are not me, and with them I look...”
– Péter Nádas, Parallel Stories, trans. Imre Goldstein (via proustitute)
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and...”
– Norton Juster (via ruineshumaines)
One of the biggest things I miss about living in NH is the hush of a country road at night and driving along it with the windows down and the summer breeze in your hair
(via sixohthree)