December 2011
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“I want to do a piece where I go to the Alps and talk to a mountain. The mountain...”
– Bas Jan Ader (via bouqetofparentheses)
“I can’t speak for other –
for me this is misery and happiness enough:
just...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “The Ball”(translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Claire Cavanagh)
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So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.
— C. McCann
“I was myself the compass of that sea:
I was the world in which I walked, and...”
– Wallace Stevens, from “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon” (via gammasandgerunds)
“It’s possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and...”
– Raymond Carver (via Vintage Books & Anchor Books)
(via bookoasis)
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“Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a...”
– Marie Ray (via julie911)
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“Reverse Racism? Many white people claim to have experienced mistreatment,...”
– (Halifax District School Board, Anti-Racism Policy, 1996) on Reverse Racism (via racismfreeontario)
THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THIS IN WORDS I NEVER COULD QUITE ARTICULATE.
hint: if you have to put “reverse” in front of something that typically means it is not the same.
(via sexxxisbeautiful)
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“I can understand those who are jealous of the past of an artist. It becomes a...”
– Anaïs Nin (via ctattianahh)
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