September 2010
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“Because desire just cheats you. It’s like a sunbeam skipping here and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Beautiful and Damned)
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“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
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Priorities.
DK: i don't have time to go to therapy
DK: wtf
SL: YOU SHOULD MAKE TIME
SL: it's like an hour a week!
DK: it just sounds like another commitment
DK: don't you sometimes think--i'd rather nap during that hour?
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Animal Collective Design Their Own Line of Shoes →
(from Pitchfork)
“Animal Collective have teamed up with the clothing company Keep to create their own line of shoes. The band has more shoe designs on the way, but the first of those designs is for sale now. Avey Tare has designed the Tobin, the trippy-looking slip-on you see above. It won’t ship until March, but you can pre-order it on the Keep website. Advance sales these shoes come...
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Ditch Your Laptop, Dump Your Boyfriend →
(from The New York Times)
“Advice for freshmen from the people who actually grade their papers and lead their class discussions.”
Cute and accurate. Things I wish I’d known but didn’t.
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You know you're apathetic when . . .
ML: Help me!
ML: I don't care about anything!
ML: I don't even care about WoW!
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UrlAi.com →
A friend just showed this to me. Pretty cool — assesses the gender/age/mood/tone of your blog based on the text of your last few posts.
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Reach down your hand in your pocket. Pull out some...
I’m feeling angsty enough for Matchbox Twenty. Oh dear.
I used to be so in love with Rob Thomas.
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“Estragon: (gesture towards the universe) This one is enough for you?”
– Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
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My Life in Therapy →
(from The New York Times Magazine)
“To this day, I’m not sure that I am in possession of substantially greater self-knowledge than someone who has never been inside a therapist’s office. What I do know, aside from the fact that the unconscious plays strange tricks and that the past stalks the present in ways we can’t begin to imagine, is a certain language, a certain style of thinking...
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“He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
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“The fire in the grate burned low, but I took no notice. Another smoldered in my...”
– Valerie Martin (Property)
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“Brick” — Ben Folds, on Whatever...
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“A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years, he...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“Are you okay?” she asked me.
“Of course,” I said. “Why...”
– Peter Cameron (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You)
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Fear and Self-Loathing in North Carolina.
It’s Saturday afternoon. I’m in my room blasting The Swell Season, thinking about tonight. About where I’d rather be, who I’d rather be. I’m waiting for night to fall so I can leave this feeling behind.
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“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
– Ovid
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Oh My Gosh, What Happened To Paraguay? And China,... →
(from NPR.com)
“Most maps let you see where places are.
These maps let you see where people are.”
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Re: Watermelon Headshot.
DK: i find it so cathartic
SL: she took a watermelon to the face!
DK: sometimes that's how i feel about life
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It's too late for this.
SP: Every time my laptop makes this clicking noise, it means it's about to have a permanent failure.
SP: The only way to fix it is to turn it upside down really fast. And then everything's fine.
SP: That's Microsoft for you.
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“Suddenly I understand I am happy.
For months the feeling
has been coming...”
– Jane Kenyon (“The Suitor”)
(quoted in The Blurb #19 on The Rumpus)
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“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)
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“To be nothing more than innocent! Yet in an esthetic way he saw the charm of it,...”
– Herman Melville (Billy Budd)
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“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at...”
– Jeremy Bentham
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THE BLURB #19: The Complete Thing →
(from The Rumpus)
This is sold as “a long meditation on poetry, love, time, pain, and finishing the novel,” but it’s definitely … better than that. Or maybe it is that, and I’m just not digging the description like I should. In any case, this is beautiful and worth its reading time.
