July 2012
“It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven...”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ‘Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper’ in The Forerunner (1913)
Read The Yellow Wallpaper here
(via omybestbeloved)
today in history class my teacher asked what’s the name of the terrorist group that is responsible for 9/11 and the kid she picked to answer said alpaca. alpaca.
I can’t stop laughing. Ahahahahahahaha!!! Alpaca!
“You cannot save people; you can only love them.”
– Anais Nin (via in-spur-ay-shun)
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with...”
– Marcel Proust (via thelittlephilosopher)
“You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own...”
– Ira Glass (via girl-violence)
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one...”
– Claude Monet (via tittysandpancakes)
fuck yeah, Monet.
Watching Piers Morgan, he said something about “doing something to make sure that this doesn’t happen again,” in reference to the Colorado shootings. Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent tragedies. Drug overdoses have not prevented drug use, drunk-driving related deaths have not prevented drunk driving, and so on.
“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via badcake)
This is true of all things
“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”
– Margaret Atwood (via wordpainting)
Zora Neale Hurston
Day 1 of the Florida Humanities Council
The Cool
I get to experience the dorm life I never did in college. Communal showers, bad mattresses, eating at the dining hall, and lots of walking. Ok, it’s not terribly a lot of walking, but it is by Miami standards.
The amount of history being covered this week is phenomenal. Primary sources, documents, maps, first-person accounts. It’s...
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength....”
– Tyrion Lannister (via sarahbennet)
So classy.
“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the...”
– City Of Thieves, David Benioff (via iamadragonslayer)
Jealous.
staychillll:
chino describes the new deftones album as kind of dreamy. that makes me really happy and excited and i cant wait till october 8th so it could come out
October 8th!!!
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“Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns...”
– J.D. Salinger - “A Girl I Knew” (via justanothertrampofhearts)
^ (via subtlebeats)
11 Commercials for Defunct '90s Food and Drinks
mentalflossr:
Back in the 90s, you could buy any of these things. You could get them all at the same time if you wanted. Now you can’t get any of these products in stores, but you can shell out too much cash for a 16-year-old bottle of Orbitz on eBay.
Watch: 11 Commercials for Defunct ’90s Food and Drinks
Awwww….
“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via rarararambles)
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