December 2011
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“Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we...”
– Paul Harding (Tinkers)
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Beetles and eggs and blues and pour a little...
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quitting smoking
attempt 341
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“My mind is a calm cool
bowl of shaving cream.
I say this not to you
but to...”
– Ben Mirov, Written by a Method I Call Being a Jerk
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You and Me - Penny & The Quarters
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kdetto:
that time of year when i start thinking about moving somewhere warm and beginning my whisky drinking days in earnest
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WORST COLLEGE ESSAYS 1989 →
“Looking back, I can’t help wishing that I had spent more of my seemingly infinite free time reading actual books, instead of books that denied the existence of books. Although I was nominally an English literature major, I emerged from college with huge gaps in my knowledge of the canon, and since then I’ve been trying to catch up. Not until my mid-twenties did I crack open a novel of Henry...
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18 Newt Gingrich Quotes That Disqualify Him From...
“14. ‘It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid…These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.’ ~Newt Gingrich, advocating for an end to child labor laws so businesses can fire union workers and replace them with cheap labor.
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Alyda, what have you done to you?
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“If I imitate your sleeplessness it’s out of influence or empathy.”
– Jonathan Galassi, poetry in the new issue. (via theparisreview)
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