January 2011
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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...
– Katherine Mansfield (via amiquote)
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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in...
– Henry Steele Commager (via libraryland)
The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on...
– Article 11, Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously approved by the US Senate and signed by President John Adams on June 7,1797.
…but don’t let the facts get in the way.
(via leftish)
What? Facts? What are those?
(via mohandasgandhi)
Favorite. Quote. Ever. Everyone...
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Write drunk. Edit sober.
– Ernest Hemingway (via ernest365)
Hey, fucking dicknose ass-cheeks shithead—I WILL HAVE CHOPPED GREEN ONIONS...
– Michael Ian Black - My Custom Van: and 50 other mind-blowing essays that will blow your mind all over your face
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for...
– Charles Bukowski (via senonoraquando)
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far,...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via libraryland)
leukocytes:
if I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside
on my fingertips and at brain edges
and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.
-Charles Bukowski
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (via asymmetrical)
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at...
– Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (via wearebasiclight)
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Adventures with Abstract Books and the People Who...
secondbalcony:
Imagine you only heard operas. Then the first time that you hear a symphony or something you’d go “wtf? I can’t make out words and it’s only nonsensical sounds; to like this gibberish postmodern ‘opera’ you’ve got to be pretentious assholes who pretend they understand what these sounds say and won’t admit that these sounds aren’t words.”