February 2012
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This Is Just To Say
I was not expecting the perfume sampler I tried on this morning to smell like you.
Kindly tell my professor that Calvin Klein and I had to go home and take a shower
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"VERY SEXY is About to Get Sexier..."
Victoria’s Secret, you need to find someone else to write your emails.
Best,
Fiona
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The Assassination of Jesse James
shitmystudentswrite:
Shortly after delivering his I Have a Dream speech, Martin Luther King was assassinated by Jesse James.
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“I wrote your name on all
my folders & drew your
silhouette like...”
– —NATE SLAWSON, from MIRANDA, OR AN ABRIDGED HISTORY OF THE TENTH GRADE
you are an arrow you are a radio once upon a time you were a girl with wings
me, I’m a meadowlark, I guess, I used up all of my good metaphors with you, this is what tenth grade love does to me, you eat me up
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This Is Just To Say
I have found that your secret blog is impossible to find and
I just want to make sure you know kissing you in that photo booth well it was an accident
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GOOD GRIEF →
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“I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full...”
– —Richard Feynman to his dead wife (full letter here)
a) “I don’t know your new address”
b) “they all seem ashes”
c) AND THEN HE LIVED FORTY THREE MORE YEARS
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“I don’t understand this business of linguistics.
Make me cry.
Don’t make me...”
– —Anne Carson
The Truth About Tears, or, YUP
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This Is Just To Say
In Britney Spears’ “Hit Me One More Time,” she says: “my loneliness is killing me.”
In “Stronger” she says: “my loneliness ain’t killing me no more.”
Right?
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xeno
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
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SAD SINGERS / THEY JUST PLAY TRAGIC →
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“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah...”
– William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“affection times purity times intensity times duration” yeah oooook
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Things NoViolet Bulawayo Said In Class Today
some stories insist on being told
a good story is more intelligent than its author
you don’t have to answer to anyone when writing fiction
BUT. when writing non-fiction you have to write with dignity
(and then she read from her story that won the 2011 Caine prize and I wondered why I wasn’t spending every second of my life writing because I guess I could be if I wanted to, and I...
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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
Do not make a list of things you love more than love.
Things I Love More Than Love
everything
whale shaped piñatas
leopard print
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Florence + the Machine vs. Drake — Over x 2
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Sad Singers / They Just Play Tragic
Catherine: what is it about the human condition that grants us artistic genius when we are emotionally at our lowest?
Me: lol idk happy ppl r not good at songs
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This Is Just To Say
I have figured out how to use the email contact lookup on tumblr
and though I will probably not follow your blog because I am shy
I will put it in my Google Reader. It’s sweet, like I am, and cold because you are too.
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“To stay human is to break a limitation.
Like it if you can. Like it if you...”
– —Anne Carson
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WatchHolly Miranda — I’d Rather Go Blind (Etta James cover)
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
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WatchSUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
I made a mix on July 2, 2010. just listened to it again, and, well, perfect and everything and now. Seasons change, but this doesn’t.
i wonder if it’s right to call you a friend / wanna see you with the light in the morning / hey, me too! so let’s get busy / TURN YOU OVER IN MY MIND like you’re still in my hands, don’t touch you anymore /...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Hysteric
There’s...
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Holly Miranda — I’d Rather Go Blind...
Anonymous asked: i think you mean blue jeans with the sky ferreira cover.
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El Perro Del Mar — Here Comes That Feeling
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