January 2010
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“I am astonished by drawing. I always think of every drawing as a kind of...”
– —-milton glaser (via wingspan)
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“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an...”
– ~ Mitch Hedberg
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from Terry Pratchet's 'Reaper Man'
The sun was near the horizon.
The shortest-lived creatures on the Disc were mayflies, which barely make it through twenty-four hours. Two of the oldest zigzagged aimlessly over the waters of a trout stream, discussing history with some younger members of the evening hatching.
“You don’t get the kind of sun now that you used to get, ” said one of them.
“You’re right there. We had proper sun in...
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“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you...”
– ~ Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are not the Only Fruit
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““Do you know what friendship is?” he inquired.
“Yes,”...”
– ~ Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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“It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in...”
– ~ Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are not the Only Fruit
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“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates...”
– ~ Oscar Wilde
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Brooke Fraser - The Thief
You’re ruining me...
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“He misjudged me. I had every reason to get a grasp of this phenomenon that he...”
– ~ J. M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year
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'The Rapture of Canaan', pg. 1
I’ve spent a lot of time weaving, but you’d never know it from my hands.
With threads, hair, and twisted fabric, I weave in fragments of myself, bits of other people. I weave in lies, and I weave in love, and in the end, it’s hard to know if one keeps me warmer than the other.
And when I’m done, I lift the rug from the loom and study it in my fingers. When I back away...
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