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A Thousand Rebellions
A little old school hxc for ya 5 days ago by outlawpoet. “If we just look, inside each of us a thousand rebellions sleep.” -From “Chorus of One” by Richmond, VA’s own Strike Anywhere
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On Becoming Great
Words To Remember Over The Holidays 1 hour ago by alexodom. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
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A bit of reality about Twilight
My thoughts exactly… 4 days ago by metatraveller. http://community.feministing.com/2008/07/misgonmy-in-popular-teen-liter.html “ Once Edward and Bella get together, Bella is completely dependent upon him. He becomes her entire life. Bella has no friends outside of Edward. The few people she talks to are so few and far between, they hardly count. The closes thing Bella has to […]
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Photos to Words
From Photos to Words “The way I understand it, a photographer’s relationship to his medium is responsible for his relationship to the world is responsible for his relationship to his medium.” —–Garry Winogrand
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From Glints of Light Rescue by Jason Shinder When the doctor inserts his two fingers into my mother rectum, the pupils of her eyes move like blue-fish under the ice in a bucket before they are carried away. I am climbing out of a well and offering her some water. I am picking up her […]
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Hemingway on War
From Weaving Olden Dances From Ernest Hemingway “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
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Howards End and Umbrellas
Howards End 4 days ago by trojanmanman. All men are created equal–all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.–Leonard Bast
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Marriage 3 days ago by metatraveller. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Nietzsche
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Glints of Light and Cat’s Cradle
From Glints of Light “See the cat? See the cradle?” 2 Again, Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle: Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely. “Everything must have a purpose?” asked God. “Certainly,” said man. “Then I leave you to think of one for all this,” said God. And He went away.
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