January 2012
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I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman
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Martin Freeman (on Benedict): He’s sweet and generous in an almost childlike way. He’s very easy to screw over. I could take advantage of him playing cards. Actually, I must take advantage of him playing cards. But as an actor, he’s one of the very few people I’ve worked with whose taste I don’t question. Even subconsciously I’m not going, ‘Well, I wouldn’t have done it like...
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Not only have I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what...
– Joan Didion
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Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And...
– Haruki Murakami
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December 2011
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I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an...
– Fernando Pessoa
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I was laying in bed one night and I thought ‘I’ll just quit — to hell with it.’...
– Dedicated to Henry Charles Bukowski: Don’t give up
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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are...
– George R.R. Martin
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...
– Jack Kerouac
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Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one...
– Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World (via atramentum)
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okay basically today, north carolina is making it...
tidesbetween:
after it has stayed in the shelter for 72 days
the dogs that fall under this “breed ban” it won’t even get the chance to be adopted
if the owner brings in the dog it will immediately be killed
the breeds in the “ban” are “bullies” ie: Dobermans, Rottweilers, Chow Chows, German Shepherds, Great Danes, Pitbulls, Mastiffs, Akitas and Huskies
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the...
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
November 2011
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She had read much and her memory was retentive. She had a pretty gift for...
– The Creative Impulse, W. Somerset Maugham
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He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because...
– Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
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She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the...
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
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I met a doctor, not much older than myself, who was a) drunk and b) pretty...
– Charlie Brooker (via whizzbees)