September 2011
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“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is...”
– Martha Graham
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“A PACK OF CIGARETTES has to be the most satisfying purchase of any given day....”
– Tom Chiarella, fiction editor at Esquire.
Taken from “The Indefensible Position: Smoking Has Its Benefits”
(via cailjudy)
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Daughter
One day I’ll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she’s born she’ll scream and I’ll make sure she never stops. I will kiss her before I lay her down and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive. I’ll tell her about the power of water, the seduction of paper, the promise of gasoline, and the hope of blood. I’ll teach her to shave her eyebrows and mark...
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Steve Gehrke, "Prologue, Epilogue"
for my daughter
when you were vaulted, embargoed, tapping out messages on the walls, when you were translucent, opalescent, a hieroglyph coming to life in its cave, when your body was a glowing aquarium of cells, when you were reptilian, mammalian, quick-changing behind the curtain’s folds, when you were a kite unfolding in the wind, an expanding mesh, an origamist of the flesh, when you...
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“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via ontherunagain)
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Dear Stranger,
To the high school freshman I saw waiting in line at one of the mall’s many milktea places,
(Disclaimer for a truckload of clichés. Forgive me, but repetition breeds remembrance and we all need reminding sometimes.)
Ditch those tacky knock-off Chuck Taylors and make your parents invest in a decent pair of originals or maybe Vans. Get them wet, get them dirty, have your friends write on them. The...
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“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
– Nietzsche
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“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the...”
– Carl Sagan
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“I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via loveyourchaos)
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“With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces long earrings and a variety...”
– Joan Juliet Black
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“To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is...”
– In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver 