"As for myself, I swung the door open. And there was the wordless, singing world. And I ran for my life."
-Mary Oliver, from “Work, Sometimes” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (via proustitute)
-Mary Oliver, from “Work, Sometimes” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (via proustitute)
-Albert Einstein (via blua)
(Source: sirmitchell, via blua)
-Jorge Luis Borges, from “The Circular Ruins” in Collected Fictions, trans. Andrew Hurley (via proustitute)
-Oscar Wilde (via blua)
-Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (via nirvikalpa)
(Source: wordslessspoken, via frncsca)
-David Cole in a NY Books piece on the lack of accountability for torture in the United States and the recent dismissal of the lawsuit brought by Jose Padilla against John Yoo. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
(Source: nybooks.com, via thepoliticalnotebook)
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Mark Twain
Let us always measure people as they are and never as they were.
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Romantic Comedies; where, against all the odds, two thin straight heterosexual cisgender white people manage to fuck each other.
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-John Henrik Clarke, “Education for a New Reality in the African World” (1994)
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