February 2012
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Ginsberg
sashayed:
No blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish earned the right to make any possible mistake for the rest of his life. I just wish I hadn’t made this mistake with him. It was during the Vietnam war and he was giving a great protest reading in Washington Square Park and nobody wanted to leave. So Ginsberg got the idea, “I’m going to shout ‘the war is over’ as loud as I can,” he...
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It is perfectly exhausting having to reason all the time in a universe I never...
– Kurt Vonnegut
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The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chose to invent one of my own
– Peter Doherty. (via carvemyname)
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I do think I’m totally romantic, it’s disgusting. But I think that’s good. I...
– Ellen Page
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The most beautiful poem I've read was written by a...
There are the rushing waves
Mountains of molecules
Each stupidly minding its own business
Trillions apart
Yet forming white surf in unison
Ages on ages before any eyes could see
Year after year
Thunderously pounding the shore as now
For whom, for what?
On a dead planet
With no life to entertain
Tortured by energy
Wasted prodigiously by the sun
Poured into space
A mite makes the sea...
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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those...
– Richard Feynman, as quoted in Superstrings : A Theory of Everything (1988)
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Find God’s Match for You™
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howardmooncolonexplorer:
And the Lord sayeth unto Ben; Place your penis into Courtney’s vagina and in her vagina alone. Do not place it into the bum of thine friend Eric, though he be ripped like Jesus at Easter.
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Confessions of a Vermiphobic
That one time I was wearing only boxer shorts and my sister very convincingly yelled “THERE’S A WORM ON YOUR SHORTS!” so off went the boxers, along with my dignity and everything else I believed in.
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Blame Aphrodite
It’s no use
Mother dear, I
can’t finish my
weaving
You may...
– Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard, “Blame Aphrodite”
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Of all the words of mice and men
The saddest are ‘It might have been.’
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