January 2012
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“We’re all just walking each other home.”
– Ram Dass
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Be Like a Cloud - Regina Spektor.
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Happy Valentine's Whatever. →
“I want to kiss you for science” and “down to fuck” are my personal favorites.
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New "rudest city" - NYC. →
“There are great people in New York, we’re just in a rush.”
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“If there is a last judgment, if there’s an outside chance of a last...”
– Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
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Bagels are carb-loaded hugs; pizza is a big,...
I have to sit on my suitcase three times before it will zip shut. But there’s always more to add. It’s hard to leave New York in January.
I said no to every date, every advance, every fleeting memory that meant to turn into something more. And for what? So that I can fly back tomorrow night with a clear head. That part is harder, even as I get older and I become more definitive. I...
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“I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going.”
– Etta James, Rage to Survive
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“I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And...”
– Oscar Wilde
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"The poverty gauntlet." →
“People who have never been poor love to point out overweight people in the ghetto and sarcastically exclaim, ‘Yeah, it really looks like she’s starving!’ And they have no idea that the reason many of them have weight problems is because everything they’re putting into their bodies is dirt-cheap, processed bullshit.”
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The book seer. →
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“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
– Tennessee Williams
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What's breaking my heart today. →
“‘It’s like I told Oprah [Winfrey] a few years ago: ‘Honey, I’m your cook, not your doctor,’ Deen said. ‘You are going to have to be responsible for yourself.’”
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“The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.”
– Henry Miller
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Moonrise Kingdom. →
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Whatever else you do today, be sure you love...
My sister looks like a small girl up there, unwrapping silverware and wineglasses and blue hand towels. I don’t think she’s ever fully realized just how beautiful she is, in ways that have nothing to do with the way she dances while driving, or how light her eyes are in the summer. And though she is exactly this kind of beautiful, this weather-bending, illogical kind of beautiful, I...
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“Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.”
– Mark Twain
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“In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.”
– Denis Johnson
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50 issues for $15. →
I love New York Magazine. Sometimes they do whole articles on the best bread in the city.
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