May 2012
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“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
– Rumi
May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as...”
– T.S. Eliot
May 24th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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Friday, June 21: I saw a good-looking,... →
once-called-m: Friday, June 21: I saw a good-looking, interesting, intelligent girl in the subway train and, of course, knew I never would see her again unless I said something. But I didn’t really know what to say, and anyway I was dressed in a cruddy old sweatshirt. I mean, wearing a sweatshirt is fine,  but I wasn’t wearing it, I just happened to have it on. I could have cited the fantastic...
May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
– Flappers and Philosophers, F. Scott Fitzgerald
May 23rd
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April 2012
19 posts
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I don’t know how to approach you. Only come to me - get closer and closer to me. It will be beautiful, I promise you. - Henry Miller to Anais Nin, 1932
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,...”
– Michael Ondaatje, from The English Patient
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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ListenThe Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Apr 17th
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“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” —     T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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“Oh I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and...”
– Dylan Thomas, November or December 1936 From The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas
Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
– Buddha
Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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March 2012
33 posts
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“XVII No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we’re not...”
– Twenty-One Love Poems, Adrienne Rich
Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: A Poet of Unswerving...
We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to the scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.
Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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“For your hair was full of roses, and my flesh was full of thorns.”
– La Gitana, Aleister Crowley
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the...”
– Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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“How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder that a whole city—arches, pillars,...”
– “Atlantis — A Lost Sonnet,” Eavan Boland
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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tamburina: “This is my book,” she said. She put it down on the desk and almost stepped back when she did it. She was going to step back but then changed her mind. She glanced at me again and I could feel somebody inside of her looking out as if her body were a castle and a princess lived inside. Richard Brautigan
Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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“People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”
– Haruki Murakami
Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...”
– Leonard Cohen 
Mar 10th
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