June 2011
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“Start as close to the end as possible.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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insaneisanunderstatement asked: I'm watching 500 Days of Summer on a whim. Just thinking of you. <3
May 2011
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Glittering Eyes.
And above all else, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
~ Roald Dahl
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“I’m sorry for being human.”
– Alain de Botton, On Love
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acciomycroftholmes asked: http://www.habitat-ncg.org/get_involved.php
http://www.habitat-ncg.org/restore_volunteer.php
:D
http://www.habitat-ncg.org/restore_volunteer.php
:D
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Mirrors.
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike I am not cruel, only truthful – The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and...
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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"It was that they'd had their souls torn out." →
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His Wife.
My wife is not afraid of dirt. She spends each morning gardening, stooped over, watering, pulling weeds, removing insects from her plants and pinching them until they burst. She won’t grow marigolds or hollyhocks, just onions, eggplants, peppers, peas – things we can eat. And while she sweats I’m working on my poetry and flute. Then growing tired of all that art, I’ve strolled out to the garden...
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“There is no way of communicating inside your head but speech. And if you can’t...”
– William Gass
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insaneisanunderstatement asked: Ey you! Where's that camera quiz that you took? I wanna take it! <3
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June 21, 1913.
The tremendous world I have in my head. But how free myself and how free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand time rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.
~ Franz Kafka
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On Angels.
There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams. Short is your stay here: now and then at a matinal hour, if the sky is clear, in a melody repeated by a bird, or in the smell of apples at the close of day when the light makes the orchards magic. They say somebody has invented you but to me this does not...
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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
– Edvard Munch
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7daystochangeyourlife asked: That's a Canon lens btw.
You can tell by the red band around the top of it. Those are their L class lenses..
You can tell by the red band around the top of it. Those are their L class lenses..
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7daystochangeyourlife asked: Actually I was just wondering about your opinion on it...
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7daystochangeyourlife asked: What was wrong with the paintbrush picture I put up?
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Fear of Happiness.
Looking back, it’s something I’ve always had: As a kid, it was a glass-floored elevator I crouched at the bottom of, my eyes squinched tight, Or staircase whose gaps I was afraid I’d slip through, Though someone always said I’d be all right— Just don’t look down or See, it’s not so bad (The nothing rising underfoot). Then later The high-dive at the pool, the tree-house perch, Ferris wheels,...
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“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
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Mad.
The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad?
Alice: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret: all the best people are.
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Bucolics.
All afternoon these lovers lay Until the sun turned pale from warm, Until sweet wind changed tune, blew harm : Cruel nettles stung her angles raw.
Rueful, most vexed, that tender skin Should accept so fell a wound, He stamped and cracked stalks to the ground Which had caused his dear girl pain.
Now he goes from his rightful road And, under honor, will depart; While she stands burning,...
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“I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a poem and...”
– John Keats
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Books.
Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.
~ Robert Goolrick
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keeplovinglesshating asked: u blog things..so much. lol
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“Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When...”
– James Salter, Dusk and Other Stories 