December 2011
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You could have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you...
– Johnny Cash
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Expensive things I want to own
Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
“In the Library” by Christopher Brosius
A working gramophone.
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I haven’t done a thing all morning because I’m feeling hopeless. I have to go to work at four. I have to work with someone the entire workplace collectively hates. A thief, an addict and a liar. I’ll come home late. I only had six hours of sleep. I’ll collapse onto the sunken couch. I almost want to leave now, just to start getting things done. My dad is painting my bedroom floor. I hate the way...
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Someone ask me something. Or tell me something.
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The thing that keeps me up at night is always, without fail, you. It is sometimes my love for you, so completely overwhelming that tiny images of your teeth, your bare feet, placate me. Sometimes it’s my hatred for you, a terribly conflicted hatred that does nothing but illustrate the opposite. Many nights, it’s worry. Above all though, the sinews and tendons inside of me stretch and contort, on...
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But couldn’t it be just a bit more red?
– Everything is Illuminated
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First, are you our sort of person?
Do you wear,
A glass eye, false teeth or a...
– (The Applicant) Sylvia Plath (via perdu-)
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A pitch black tattoo
covers almost her entire head.
Only a lightning streak of...
– Gutter Punk by Mather Schneider (via blacksheepboy-)
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Today a man with stormy eyes and knobby fingers asked me which galaxy we live in. He told me people have forgotten, when they used to know, all of them, years ago, because they could look into the sky and see it surrounding them. He told me that the city is going insane, and our brains are dying as we look into our backyards and only see five stars in the night. He said we’ve lost the...
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When I look back on my life, it’s not that I don’t want to see things exactly as...
– Lady Gaga