January 2011
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“terrified again
of not loving
of loving and not you
of being loved and not by...”
– Samuel Beckett, excerpt from Cascando (via -neglect)
“Other weddings are so shrewd on the sofa, short
and baffled, bassett-legged....”
– Brenda Shaughnessy, Epithalament (via holdonmagnolia)
“VLADIMIR: Nothing you can do about it.
ESTRAGON: No use struggling.
VLADIMIR:...”
– Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (via artshouldnotbeperfect)
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Expelliarmus
DAD: Ungardium leviosa, ladies!!
ME: Do you mean wingardium leviosa?
DAD: It’s levi OH sa, not LEVI oh sa
DAD: And by that I mean I booked the tix 4 HP land. watch out 4 expeliarmus @ college.
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naked words: "You Should Date An Illiterate Girl"... →
nakedwords:
Jan. 19, 2011
Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look…
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“Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your...”
– Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson (via melancholynotes)
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“There are two kinds of people, soldiers and women,
as Virginia Woolf said. Both...”
– Brenda Shaughnessy, Postfeminism (via holdonmagnolia)
Shameless Hipster Scum: Ben Franklin’s 200+... →
mentalflossr:
Ben Franklin turned 305 today! To celebrate, here’s a list of expressions meaning “inebriated” that Franklin first published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on January 6, 1737.
The Drinkers Dictionary
A He is Addled, He’s casting up his Accounts, He’s Afflicted, …
“Locate I
love you some-
where in
teeth and
eyes, bite
it but
take...”
– Robert Creeley, The Language (via holdonmagnolia)
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
– William Shakespeare (via kari-shma)
“joy in the day’s being done, however
clumsily, and in the ticked-off lists, ...”
– J. Allyn Rosser, Then there too is this (via holdonmagnolia)