“Everything I’ve ever let go of, has claw marks on it.” — David Foster Wallace (via justsaysomethingperfect)
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“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.” — Toni Morrison (via foucault-cult)
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“The plan was to play hard to get, that’s right. I wasn’t just gonna go given’ myself away, I’m no easy catch. Can you really see me in fishnets? No. I always find myself slippin’ out the holes, swimmin’ back out to sea. I’d never been anybody’s sushi roll.
But she, has lips like wasabi. My eyes water every time we kiss.”
— Andrea Gibson-Wasabi (via fuckyeahmeganlove)
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“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you’re not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn’t a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.” — Anaïs Nin (via aninsufferableknowitall)
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hateship loveship: from "Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written" by Margaret Atwood -
In this country you can say what you like
because no one will listen to you anyway,
it’s safe enough, in this country you can try to write
the poem that can never be written,
the poem that invents
nothing and excuses nothing,
because you invent and excuse yourself each day.Elsewhere, this poem…
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“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” — Carl Jung (via hateshiploveship)
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“I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.’”
— Sylvia Plath
written in 1949 at age 17 (via hateshiploveship)
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“It is one of my lifelong weaknesses that I never could endure the embrace or kiss of my own sex. (An unmanly weakness, by the way; Aeneas, Beowulf, Roland, Lancelot, Johnson and Nelson knew nothing of it).” — C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (via dduane)
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“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone.” — Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood (via creatingaquietmind)
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My wife and I were at a bar tonight eating dinner and I overhear the barman:
“I don’t even like sports, but every morning I watch the news and read the sports section. If you can’t have a conversation with every type of person about anything you have no place being here.”
I need to start doing this.