May 2011
15 posts
“There are people we treat wrong, and later, we’re prepared to treat other people...”
– Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep (via sandwichspy)
“The pain that’s created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any...”
– Russell Simmons, Do You! (via onherway)
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The Bell Jar
marilagskie:
“Of course, you have another year at college yet,” Jay Cee went on a little more mildly. “What do you have in mind after you graduate?” What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I’d be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort....
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Sunday night spa
Had a relaxing stone massage at Wensha, where I saw a lot of boobs and vaginas. I realized three things. First, I’m not as flat-chested as I thought I was. That’s good. Second, the female body is really an art form. Sans haughty or stylish swimsuits, naked women are just beautiful. And I love how women of all ages and sizes were walking around. The slopes and the curves and the way the...
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It's all congruent
Your need for people, travel, non-linear things, languages, stories. The universe is telling you something. Listen. Work on it. Do it.
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Lessons bessons
Waiting is a capital sin. Just do it. Big things happen when you jump.
Never underestimate the power of deadlines. Even for small things. Always look at clocks.
Also, lists.
“So that feeling came again, even though I tried to keep it out: that we were...”
– Kazuo Shiguro, Never Let Me Go
“Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have,...”
– Mary Manin Morrissey
