January 2012
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...”
– Charles Bukowski
December 2011
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jerryroush:
1) Put your iTunes on shuffle. Give me the first 6 songs that pop up. 2) If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be? 3) Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17. 4) What do you think about most? 5) What does your latest text message from someone else say? 6) Do you sleep with or without on? 7) What’s your strangest talent? 8) Girls…. (finish...
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One day at a time.
I recognize impossibilities for what they are.
I rebel just the same.
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All Or Nothing | Mutemath — Odd Soul (2011)
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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places....”
– Ernest Hemingway, “A Farewell to Arms”
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“Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to...”
– David Bohm, American-born British quantum physicist who contributed to theoretical physics, philosophy, neuropsychology, and the Manhattan Project. (1917-1992), Changing consciousness: exploring the hidden source of the social, political, and environmental crises facing our world,...
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Who says I can’t enjoy my personal downfall?
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“I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books,...”
– The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
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“Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the...”
– George Lakoff, American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Mark Johnson, Metaphors we live by, University Of Chicago Press, 2003.
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“Let the flesh instruct the mind.”
– Claudia, “Interview with the Vampire” (1973 novel by Anne Rice)
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“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest,...”
– Ernest Hemmingway, Midnight in Paris (2011 film written and directed by Woody Allen)
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Entwined in the throes of passion, we lovers now reside. But what masquerades as Love is truly Lust, a momentary state of mind. We don this mask unbeknownst to ourselves, to claim what’s doomed to hide. Some semblance of that reverie, we desperately seek, but never find.
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Daydreaming in my fashion, long do I consider the divergent paths of Life one might take; the countless threads of Possibility holding greater sway than the reality I at present endure.
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“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to...”
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth...”
– Sigmund Freud
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Dusk
I find myself in a strange new world.
With the changing of seasons I too move closer to the end of my days. I feel it as surely as I greet each dawn, as I thrive in the inevitable dusk that follows. I often write of ideals. On occasion, I mourn them. Or I did, but perspective is a seaborne muse, one subject to constant change; now leading me astray with all the malevolence of a siren, now granting...
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“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote to...”
– Gertrude Stein, Midnight in Paris (2011 film written and directed by Woody Allen)
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“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in...”
– Václav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011), International Herald Tribune, 21 February 1990
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“There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only...”
– Václav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011), Address upon receiving the Open Society Prize awarded by Central European University, 24 June 1999.
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Watch
thedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day: After a week of shaky, shoddy leaks and bootlegs, the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has finally been officially released.
The third and final installment in Nolan’s Batman trilogy, which stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, and Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, and Tom Hardy, is due to break the box office on July...
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