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“Date a girl who doesn’t read because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. She can trace out the demarcations of a prologue and the sharp ridges of a climax. She feels them in her skin. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission and expedite a denouement. But of all things, the girl who reads knows most the ineluctable significance of an end. She is comfortable with them. She has bid farewell to a thousand heroes with only a twinge of sadness.”
Charles Warnke - You Should Date an Illiterate Girl ✪ -
“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down.”
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye ✪ -
Blog: the importance of being there
Why is physical presence important to a protest movement?
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“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
Dalai Lama ✪ -
Poem: the cat, and i watch : on my curtains, the / shadows of blown-about leaves / dancing in sunrise.
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Blog: losing (and gaining) a hero
I kept walking, maybe ten feet, and I turned around once more. I looked Steve Jobs in the eye and said, with pure and unadulterated sincerity, “Thank you.”
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“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
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Blog: bonfire of the exes
And though most days they are leery and wary of one another, intoxicated – they know the measure of his manhood, they know all his idiosyncrasies… his stupid tricks, his weird fetishes and his gross habits.
Mila (Jacob Stetser)
Mila
is a writer, photographer,
& anything else that interests him.