May 2012
15 posts
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“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”
– Paulo Coelho
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“There is a long marriage between comedy and human suffering, and mental illness,...”
– Teju Cole, Open City
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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers
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“You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone’s so shocked...”
– Craig Thompson
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“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the...”
– Lacan
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Ira Glass on marriage.
Kurt Braunohler: I do have a theory now that if I do get married in the future, what I think I would want to do is have an agreement that, at the end of seven years, we have to get remarried in order for the marriage to continue. But at the end of seven years, it ends. And we can agree to get remarried or not get remarried.
Ira Glass: Why?
KB: Because then I think you get to choose. And I think it would make the relationship stronger.
IG: ...I think actually one of the things that’s a comfort in marriage is that there isn’t a door at seven years, and so if something is messed up, in the short term, there’s a comfort of knowing, ‘well we made this commitment, so we’re just going to work this out. And even if tonight we’re not getting along, or there’s something between us that doesn’t feel right, you have the comfort of knowing, we’ve got time, we’re going to figure this out’. And that makes it so much easier. Because you do go through times where you hate eachother’s guts, and the no escape clause, weirdly, is a bigger comfort to being married than I ever would have thought before I got married.
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“Years of love have been forgot in the hatred of a minute.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
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“I wanted to hurt you
but the victory is that I could not stomach it. We have...”
– Richard Siken
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“It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
– Noel Coward
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“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the time of Cholera
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“Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems that do not know where...”
– Jose Saramago, Blindness
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“There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for...”
– Alice Munro
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“One of the most fascinating aspects of human life is the irrational and...”
– Tess Lynch
April 2012
27 posts
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“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I need it the most.”
– Swedish proverb
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“Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“And maybe who you fell for and who you eventually loved wasn’t rational, no...”
– Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
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“He reminded me of all the golden boys I’d known in my life—classically handsome...”
– Cheryl Strayed, Wild
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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is...”
– Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of...”
– Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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“And Lukas would tell them to be good to each other, that there were only so many...”
– Hugh Howey, Wool
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“She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still...”
– Hugh Howey, Wool
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“And the things that she thought mattered—suddenly shrank. It was a sad...”
– Hugh Howey, Wool
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“Once guns were made, who would unmake them?”
– Hugh Howey, Wool
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“She was desperate for contact, and this stranger was the only person she knew...”
– Hugh Howey, Wool
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“What goes through a man’s thoughts as he waits there alone to be cast off?...”
– Hugh Howey, Wool
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“Especially him,” Jahns said, knowing what he was thinking. “He was a...”
– Hugh Howey, Wool
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“She kept reaching, lunging one hand forward in the black to where the line...”
– Hugh Howey, Wool
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“There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (123)
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“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (112)
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“For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out why something a stranger had...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (97)
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“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (60)
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“Everyone knows what a penny dropped form the top of the Empire State Building...”
– Nick McDonell, Twelve (177)
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“And she’s dead, of course. Maybe this is the way it is for everybody, only...”
– Nick McDonell, Twelve (88)
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“The world will spiral out from underneath you, and you will find nothing to hold...”
– Nick McDonell, Twelve (88)
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“But what kind of murderer goes and buys jelly doughnuts four hours after he...”
– Nick McDonell, Twelve (83)
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“Holston still didn’t understand how the retrieval process worked, or why...”
– Hugh Howey, Wool
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“So you are born in the capital of the world and you can never escape and...”
– Nick McDonell, Twelve (22)
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“since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will...”
– e.e. cummings
March 2012
30 posts
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“When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you...”
– An excerpt from a letter that Richard Feynman wrote to his late wife, 16 months after she passed away at the age of 25.
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“If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up...”
– William Maxwell
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“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“It’s been too long since I’ve been in contact with that young man in his...”
– Christopher Bollen, 314 Bedford (Paris Review)
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“Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see...”
– swissmiss
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“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do...”
– W. S. Merwin, Separation
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“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a...”
– D. Young
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“Or even worse, you do remember how it was prior. All of the jokes you never got...”
– “She was disarming.”: Heart Records