May 2012
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Magnolia Suns
Incense, sandalwood, and a half lit cigarette rest by the window in the bedroom of my new apartment. Soft rain drops in small intervals. The air is sultry. It’s heat, soil, and salt. It’s the promise of a new summer. Late nights turn into magnum colored dawns. Unfamiliar faces slowly smile. I pour my sixth cup of gin. Pangs of love-gone-by still prick somewhere deep inside from time to...
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they...
– Anaïs Nin (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
first day at the new job! Yikes!
There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody...
– Harry Crews
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Silence
is an ocean. Speech is a river.
– Rumi
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Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay;
I’m martyr to a motion not my...
– Theodore Roethke
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
– Francis Bacon (via susannathinks)
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I ended a relationship yesterday. We dated for three years. This sinking feeling has been with me all day. I’m not sure how to feel or what to do.
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Coat
Sometimes I have wanted to throw you off like a heavy coat.
Sometimes I have said you would not let me breathe or move.
But now that I am free to choose light clothes or none at all
I feel the cold and all the time I think how warm it used to be.
Anonymous asked: So the night you went out for a beer & you're in photo with the bird, I've always wondered how you 2 met & what happened to it, afterwards? Are so-called 'wild' creatures drawn to you in some mysterious manner? People often tell me when first I meet them & their dog likes me, that that's not usually so with some: I've always speculated what it means?...
April 2012
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“Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the...
– Matt Santo’s, The West Wing
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow...
– Eden Phillpotts
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What men mean when they talk about their “crazy” ex-girlfriend is often that she...
– Lady, You Really Aren’t “Crazy” (via sparkamovement)
ouch
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
– Robert A. Heinlein
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Stick a hot poker in my ear I can't take it...
Why I waste my time explaining simple civics to my so-called “elders” I’ll never know.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
– Goethe
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything...
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise...
– Theodore Rubin (via inotrope)
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Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they are not after you
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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and...
– George R. R. Martin
March 2012
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture — Just get people...
– Ray Bradbury
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If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
– Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Start wherever you are and start small.
– Rita Baily
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