May 2013
“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.”
– Voltaire (via likeafieldmouse)
“I am outraged that we can’t kill people in other countries without them trying...”
– Michael Moore sardonically summarising the Western reaction to the London killing (via lifeisliterallylimited)
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summer vac is: which foreign film shall i illegally download next should i read all the salingers what kind of tea shall i have this morning which part of the sky goes into my instagram this afternoon how else can i write you should i sleep at all
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psilentasincjelli:
If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me posting or liking things online for about an hour immediately after that, I promise I wasn’t lying to you, I’m just bad at going to sleep and it is usually a long process that begins with disengaging from any sort of immediate contact with people (chats, for example) and ends when everything on my screen is blurry and...
“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone...”
–
When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.
It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry...
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant,...”
– Georges Bataille (via likeafieldmouse)
“If people want to let you go, just let them do it. They may not understand who...”
– Joey Furjanic, The Heartbreak Hotel: How Long Will You Stay? (via petrichour)
“I could start fires with what I feel for you.”
– Fires, David Ramirez (via georgiangentility)
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……….it’s going to be one of those summers where i read and then get sad and then read again and then find the idea of leaving my room generally loathsome while desperately needing to get out of said room to meet friends/family etc bcos i Want to bcos they are all rly quite lovely but then O U T S I D E
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misandrwitch:
Is This A Kink I Have Or Was This Fic just Really Well Written; an existential crisis in three acts
“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to...”
– Hermann Hesse (via likeafieldmouse)
sadvelvetgirl:
Y O U M A K E M E S A D
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“1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with...”
– Juan Cole, 08/09/2012 (via thepeacefulterrorist)
Juan Cole actually wrote this 4 days after a white terrorist, yes, terrorist, murdered 6 and injured 4 people at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin. The terrorist who committed said crime spoke of an impending “racial holy war” beforehand and was a...
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“Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say...”
– Robert Sexton (via littlemiss)
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supposed to be studying but i’m
looking at dudes
“The sadness will last forever.”
– Vincent van Gogh’s last words (1853-1890)
