December 2011
1 post
November 2011
5 posts
New tattoo idea
“To pepromenon phugein adunaton.”
Greek for “It’s impossible to escape from what is destined.”
“If you have to be single and you have to be bitter and you also have to be...”
– Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry
Mark Twain lives and he is my waiter
October 2011
10 posts
From "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen
Walter: It must be very strange to be you.
Richard: I have no other way of being to compare it to.
June 2011
16 posts
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As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. - Elphaba
Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven, so you may always belong there, bound by guilt. - Elphaba
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no after, in the ever after of a Witch, there is no happily; in the story of a...
When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims. - Elephant Queen
Tribal mothers always tell their children that there are two kinds of anger: hot and cold. Boys and girls experience both, but as they grow up, the angers separate according to the sex. Boys need hot anger to survive. They need the inclination to fight, the drive to...
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To the grim poor there need be no pour quoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions. - Elphaba
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Love is wicked distraction. - Elphaba
The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness. - Elphaba
Women are weaker, but their weakness is full of cunning and an equally rigid moral certainty. Since their arena is smaller, their capacity for real damage is less alarming. Though being more intimate they are more treacherous. -Elphaba
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“I’ve the notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.”
– Elphaba, Wicked
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“Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays...”
– Nanny, Wicked
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“When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil,...”
– Elphaba, Wicked
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“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing,...”
– Galinda, Wicked
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“In historical events great men - so called - are but the labels that serve to...”
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi, War and Peace
I'm starting to like him because
1. I’m leaving in a week
2. We get along well together
3. He’s nice to talk to
7 days left in DC
It’s very lonely and melancholic now
May 2011
66 posts
Union Station to Newark Penn Station....
First and (probably last time in a while) that I will see my hometown
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“I’m the main character of my life!”
– Catherine Wexler, Daydream Nation
If you haven’t seen it, it is definitely worth it
Southern men are very kinky
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“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– Kerouac (via fuckpatience)
A perfect description of me last night
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“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via gondoleia)
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invifumi:
“Do you believe,” said Candide, “that men have always slaughtered each other as they do today, that they’ve always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates and thieves, weak, fickle, cowardly, envious, greedy, drunken, miserly, ambitious, bloodthirsty, slanderous, lecherous, fanatical, hypocritical and foolish?”
“Do you believe,” said Martin, “that hawks have always eaten pigeons when...
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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.”
– Albert Einstein (via zombies-inlove)
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“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via misshappypill)
invifumi:
“Do you believe,” said Candide, “that men have always slaughtered each other as they do today, that they’ve always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates and thieves, weak, fickle, cowardly, envious, greedy, drunken, miserly, ambitious, bloodthirsty, slanderous, lecherous, fanatical, hypocritical and foolish?”
“Do you believe,” said Martin, “that hawks have always eaten pigeons when...
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