May 2012
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“I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching...”
– David Foster Wallace’s legendary This Is Water 2005 commencement address. (via explore-blog)
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“..I’d comforted my anxieties regarding “not fitting in” with...”
– Marie Lyn Bernard
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“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do...”
– David Foster Wallace (via rarararambles)
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April 2012
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“Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke, alcohol...”
– I like the way Thomas Pynchon writes about breakfast
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"Internal Monument," G. C. Waldrep. →
A man was sad—for himself, maybe for someone else, maybe he had lost something, or someone—so he hired some workmen to erect a monument. He was not surprised when they came calling early one morning, while he was still in bed, but he was surprised when, with a practiced slash, the foreman opened his chest. “We build the monument inside,” the foreman said. “But who will see the monument?” the man...
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February 2012
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Kids, make sure you learn to type correctly from the get-go. Trying to correct years of bad habits is bad for cardiovascular health.
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degrasse →
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
adj. entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the universe, experienced in a jolt of recognition that the night sky is not just a wallpaper but a deeply foreign ocean whose currents are steadily carrying off all other castaways, who share our predicament but are already well out of…
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“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into...”
– Barack Obama
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howlin’ at a paper moon
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“I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean...”
– Thomas Pynchon, V
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“I swear the reason chickens run around after you cut their heads off is because...”
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“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t...”
– Oscar Wilde (via drencrome)
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star....”
– Haruki Murakami (via cyrtenes)
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“She thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those...”
– Emma, Jane Austen (via fleurishes)
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trumspringa
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the temptation to step off your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin, just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city.
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“A multitude of problems arise from couching these situations in catastrophic and...”
– Tim Cushing
via “The Non-Existant ‘Cyber War’ Is Nothing More Than A Push For More Government Control”
October 2011
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September 2011
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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RIP Troy Davis