May 2013
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“Totally lineless untroubled foreheads like cream cheese or ironed sheets.”
– Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
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“…Recovery is about Progress Not Perfection.”
– Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
“It was May, a time of lilacs and shooting stars.
She’s lived in my memory for...”
– Jim Harrison (via nickmiller)
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“He feels about the ritualistic daily Please and Thank You prayers rather like a...”
– Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
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“Note: the inbreath is willed, the outbreath is automatic.”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“History is a discipline of aggregate bias. A history may emphasize social...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
“The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written...”
– James Salter (via theparisreview)
“When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education,...”
– Don’t Go Back to School (via explore-blog)
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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born...”
– Pearl S. Buck (via theonlymagicleftisart)
“Kid, sobriety’s like a hard-on: the minute you get it, you want to fuck...”
– Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
“I. Those of us born by water are never afraid enough of drowning. Bruises used...”
– Clementine von Radics, In Defense of Loving Him (after Megan Falley)
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Are we all destined for despair? My intuition says it is inescapable; but it also says, just as loudly, that it can be mitigated.
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“…all accredited tennis academies have to have a Ph.D.-level counsellor on...”
– Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
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“We want choice. A sense of efficaciousness and choice.”
– Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
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“The cale kabal’s promise of ‘empowerment,’ the campaign...”
– Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
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“They’ve built their nests
in the chimneys of my heart:
those swallows...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“And they seemed abysmally ignorant of the primitive ethos, how rich, how...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“As the German biologist Ernst Haeckel established, no particle of living energy...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“As she rested, she thought of many things. She thought of Life and said to...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“The cage is a double degrader. Any bar, whether concrete or intangible, that...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“While suffering is no more glamorous — or even necessary — for...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“As unrefined and basic as an animal’s emotional equipment may be, it is...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“To simply “say” that a desire is immoral — or, resorting to...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“In the queerest of paradoxical metamorphoses, honest desires change into taboos.”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
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“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of...”
– Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 