February 2012
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Post tenebras lux.
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Mum bought me a cape
Me: Ma! Cape just arrived. EEK!
Mum: Ok, good. All done!
Me: All I need now is a Mr. Edward Fairfax Rochester to fall in love with me, lie about a madwoman in an attic, and then go blind.
Mum: YES! ANYBODY!
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“Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of...”
– Gustave Flaubert (to Louise Colet)
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“Kiss me and you’ll know how important I am.”
– Sylvia Plath
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Beginners
Hal: Well, let's say that since you were little, you always dreamed of getting a lion. And you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait but the lion doesn't come. And along comes a giraffe. You can be alone, or you can be with the giraffe.
Oliver: I'd wait for the lion.
Hal: That's why I worry about you.
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Perry v. Brown (via vigneshram)
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Things to Worry About →
emphasisadded:
In 1933, F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with the following:
Things to worry about: Worry about courage Worry about cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship Things not to worry about: Don’t worry about popular opinion Don’t worry about dolls Don’t worry about the past Don’t worry about the future Don’t worry about...
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“They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all...”
– The Incantation of Frida K - Kate Braverman
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The Believer - Joan Didion →
peterwknox:
The full interview, up now.
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January 2012
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought,...”
– Frida Kahlo
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“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus
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“In solidarity, I am going to drink so heavily tonight that I too black out.”
– Daniel
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Léa Seydoux & Gad Elmaleh Join Michel Gondry's... →
frenchcinema:
Based on the novel by Boris Vian, the story follows the plight of a woman (Audrey Tautou) who suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.