December 2010
80 posts
“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde
"People seldom do what they believe in. They do...
—Bob Dylan.
“Often it’s the most deserving people that cannot help loving those who destroy...”
– Herman Hesse
thesheeportheshepherd:
What has Wikileaks revealed besides gossip?
I don’t necessarily support everything Wikileaks is doing, but Glenn Greenwald has put together a list of some of the stories it has revealed that would be major news stories in their own right, in contrast with the mainstream media message that we already knew everything in the documents and that the cables were just “gossip.”
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“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there.”
“Where we going,...”
– On The Road; Jack Kerouac
“Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the...”
– Shel Silverstein; “Forgotten Language”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the...”
– Oscar Wilde
Miley Cyrus: Rumor has it Daniel Radcliffe has a...
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
Curing lesbianism with rape? →
thenewfilo:
Earlier this year Millicent Gaika, a 30-year-old South African woman, was tied up, beaten, strangled, tortured and raped for five hours by a man as he screamed that he would “cure” Millicent of her lesbianism.
Ndumie Funda, a local community activist whose lesbian partner was murdered in the course of a similar “corrective rape,” reached out to Millicent through a small local charity...
"I am overflowing. I talk too much. I love too...
—Anaïs Nin.
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i read a quote that said that when we grow older, we don’t feel our emotions as deeply or strongly as we used to when we were children. for some reason i haven’t been able to get this statement out of my mind…mostly because i feel as though, at least in my case, it isn’t the least bit correct. i feel as though i feel my emotions, now, so much stronger than i ever did when i...
"Every child is an artist. The problem is staying...
—Pablo Picasso.
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the...”
– Neil Gaiman; Fragile Things
“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that...”
– Neil Gaiman; Anansi Boys
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens...
“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t...”
– Neil Gaiman; Strange Little Girl
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain...
—J.D. Salinger.
The Black Keys: Never Gonna Give You Up (Jerry...
"I am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable."
—Walt Whitman.
