January 2010
28 posts
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New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good...
– Mark Twain
December 2009
44 posts
I don’t need from you a waterfall of careless praise, and I don’t need a trophy...
– “Northern Lights,” Bowerbirds (via cassiopeia)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s...
– Abraham Lincoln
On Mid-Winter Wars
beenthinking:
He calls back late last night, finds you hiding from the cold under ten pounds of blankets. Still awake. He feeds you lines from the old “30 Rock” episodes you sent him in a brief non-sequitor and makes you laugh harder than anyone which makes him laugh harder and you like the surprise, the pleasure in that laugh. He calls to apologize if he handled your comments too lightly...
I’m not here to save anyone; those days are over. As a friend told me recently,...
– Alan (via jeninla)
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Poetry in motion is really outdoing itself.
(via wolfandfox)
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I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something—forms,...
– Wallace Stegner (Crossing to Safety)
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t...
– Alice Walker