February 2011
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You Should Date An Illiterate Girl →
ouvres-les-yeux:
“Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so god damned difficult. The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with...
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When I was little, I thought that heaven was a gigantic library where you could...
– Esprit d’Escalier (via housingworksbookstore)
This is what Heaven should be like.
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Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...
– Sylvia Plath (via tulletulle)
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January 2011
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She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present,...
– Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (via quote-book)
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no...
– Anaïs Nin (via paperlover)
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I love you. I love you,
but I’m turning to my verses
and my heart is...
– excerpt from Mayakovsky by Frank O’Hara
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i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the...
– e. e. cummings (via yesyes)
(via proustitute)
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Animals
Have you forgotten what we were like then when we were still first rate and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth it’s no use worrying about Time but we did have a few tricks up our sleeves and turned some sharp corners the whole pasture looked like our meal we didn’t need speedometers we could manage cocktails out of ice and water I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener...
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It’s a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to...
– Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
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I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But...
– Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
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There’s a great study looking at attraction and scent. It turns out that women...
– The Science of the Smooch
To be entirely honest, this is one of the reasons I went off birth control. I think BC is great and everyone should have access to it, but I just can’t get down with it. It freaks me out how the hormones change me physically. I won’t go into details, but for me...
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