February 2010
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“I thought I’d be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.”
– Edward Gorey (via libraryland)
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Depression’s Upside (New York Times Magazine)
psychobabble:
It doesn’t matter if we’re working on a mathematical equation or working through a broken heart: the anatomy of focus is inseparable from the anatomy of melancholy. This suggests that depressive disorder is an extreme form of an ordinary thought process, part of the dismal machinery that draws us toward our problems, like a magnet to metal.
But is that closeness effective? Does...
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Old Book Illustrations →
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WatchNo More Women Final - or two adult comedians being silly in the snow. I love this game.
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“fuckity-bye!”
– Malcolm Tucker, on how to end a phone conversation. i’m so tempted to use this in real life one of these days. (via distractionsoflola)
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Listening to "Jolie Holland - Old Fashioned... →
This song is so good… it also fits my mood. Bit down, today, actually.
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The Trusting Heart
Oh, I’d been better dying,
Oh, I was slow and sad;
A fool I was, a-crying
About a cruel lad!
But there was one that found me,
That wept to see me weep,
And had his arm around me,
And gave me words to keep.
And I’d be better dying,
And I am slow and sad;
A fool I am, a-crying
About a tender lad!
~Dorothy Parker
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WatchThe T-Shirt War
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“The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I’m not looking for God, only...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“I didn’t know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love....”
– Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)
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“The best revenge is living well, without you.”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via iwannotowidigdo) (via libraryland) (via lesnuitsfauves) (via clairefisher) (via booklover)
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“Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting...”
– Douglas Adams (via xineann) (via thehermitage)
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“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via psychotherapy) (via myserendipities) (via free-wilderness) (via thehermitage)
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“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts.
Don’t put up with people who are...”
– Baz Luhrmann, Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
(via andeverythinginbetween) (via monicafrancesca) (via popcornandpretty) (via booklover)
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