May 2013
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newsweek:
PSA: Help victims of the tornadoes in Oklahoma by donating $10 to the Red Cross. Text REDCROSS to 90999, or visit redcross.org.
Is there not an idea in your head sometimes that you must live close to the...
– Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Fitzgerald, 1933 (via 33113)
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‘Nothing is altered and in spite of God’s mercy I am still alone. Though my...
– Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
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April 2013
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My computer broke two or three weeks ago. And so here I am, disconnected, and it feels all right. I have filled that space with books, Frank O’Hara, Netflix, some strong coffee, and Guinness. I have been thinking and feeling a lot but writing little. (I have developed this irrational fear that, if I write these feelings down, they’ll leave my chest and then where will I be? Because that’s where...
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Do we not owe it to ourselves, to that self we created, apart from us, to try...
– Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
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moonii:
there’s nothing quite like being responsible for someone’s quiet sighs.
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Don’t let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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Morning, evening or night, I think you should read this book at some point in your life. I have a plan to visit Fitzgerald’s bones sometime soon.
I know I can’t see the future, but every once in a while I think I catch a glimpse of it. I see sunlight reflecting off water. I see trees swaying to music I can’t hear. I see my hands in my lap, tired but strong. Everything glows like polished brass, and I think I am happy.
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March 2013
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He who can say how he burns, burns little.
– Petrarch
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oh god, spring
the start
please let this be the start