February 2012
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“Don’t patronize me.”
– I Can’t Make You Love Me
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Some overgeneralizations about life that should be...
That you need him to make the first move. That you need her to make the first move. Just fucking do it.
That music has to be a solitary experience. Remember the word, ‘symphony’?
That cursing is unladylike. (Audrey Hepburn loved the word ‘shit.’)
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The phrase, "I was just thinking about you"
is a great thing to say and to receive.
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do you have nice teeth
then I will kiss you
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Forgot to mention, I am quite indeed on Twitter.
www.twitter.com/aprilmayparker
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Some overgeneralizations about life that should be...
That we are alone. False: I have you, you have her, she has him, he has them. They have us.
That there is never enough free time. If you think that, then you need to meet this dude.
That life after postgrad is no life.
That being forward, is not the same as being honest.
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Cunt.
When one woman calls another a ‘cunt,’
You think: ‘damn,’ is she an
unclassy bitch.
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The 3-words
When he slammed the door I forgot whether it was, love or hate that proceeded
‘you.’
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Damaged Goods:
are still,
goods.
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“Glamour is constructed, elegance is acquired, and charm is innate. For that...”
– On Elegance by Lauren Cerand
He stammered. I smiled.
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“Hands down, I’m too proud for love.”
– Little Bit by Lykke Li
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“Footloose and handsome, he was a flesh-and-blood character out of Graham Greene,...”
– This is how obituaries should be written: The New York Times obituary on John Fairfax
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Passive Aggressive
Babe, I can tell.
(I see it in the wrinkles).
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Sadists
We do it to ourselves because we feel nothing.
And do it to others, to feel something.
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“It’s just nuts. I feel like no one there is telling the truth now. We have...”
– What the late Anthony Shadid wrote to his NYTimes editors before sneaking into Syria to cover the civil war, and dying there.
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WatchSuper adorable preschoolers talking about love, via The NewsHouse
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“Is he worth a damn?
I believe so.”
– Royal, to Richie | The Royal Tenenbaums
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Portrait Number Five: Against A New York Summer by...
I’d walk her home after work buying roses and talking of Bechsteins. She was full of soul. Her small room was gorged with heat and there were no windows. She’d take off everything but her pants and take the pins from her hair throwing them on the floor with a great noise. Like Crete. We wouldn’t make love. She’d get on the bed with those nipples and we’d...
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slow, down.
I keep forgetting to slow, down. To not feel the need to rush to class, to wake up just a bit earlier during the day and just…sit. Not think, not ‘do,’ not anything. Light a candle, smell the scent and just ‘be.’ Sometimes you need those days; unwind and decompress, decompress and unwind. I keep telling myself to slow, down, even when the inevitability of ‘time...
Poetry 365: Failing and Flying, Jack Gilbert →
“everyone forgets that Icarus also flew…”
poetry365:
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there…
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via bookssay)
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No, yes, maybe.
no job no career yes love yes man maybe, a life.
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“When people ask you about them, tell the truth. Practice saying...”
– Some Advice for Young People, by Choire Sicha
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Darling, you're psychotic. Back off.
holy shit. I may have just convinced my favorite...
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“He stared at the tiger — “They’re just such beautiful...”
– There were moments while reading this piece that I realized I was holding my breath.
Animals, by Chris Jones in the March 2012 issue of Esquire
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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve...”
– Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Dear Sir, You are experiencing 'sublime...
January 2012
37 posts
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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
(More than once in a lifetime, actually.)
let us be unfettered–
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mahogany marmalade
He was not coming back – she had reached that conclusion months ago. But in the midst of it all, the unyielding possibility that his coarse mahogany boots would dribble against the floor and she would be sitting on the couch – that she had bought before him – waiting for him, she decided it was better to keep the jar of marmalade half-eaten, in case he returned.
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“Someone flashy walks into your life and you’re just gonna fall for it. Now...”
– Beginners (2011)
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No Spark
Well,
we tried.
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“I don’t know his name. I want to know his name.”