January 2012
59 posts
“I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so...”
– Oscar Wilde (via fumblingthroughchaos)
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I ain’t your Saviour or your Christ or your goddamn sacrifice And when I said I’d give my life, I weren’t talkin’ suicide And I’m so tired of trying to make it right, for a girl who just won’t come to the light Night after night after night after Christ-haunted night And how you bring your gifts to me Tied-up and bound in their bows of pink And gently place them at my feet, like I’m some dying...
“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of...”
– George Carlin (via minddoverrmatterr)
“If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
– Galatians 1:10 (via martelthechristianrapper)
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than...”
– Seneca (Roman philosopher)
the bends
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you’ve worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.
“Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being...”
– Charles Bukowski (via myheadisweak)
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via aestivial)
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all...”
– Ayn Rand (via black-wolves)
Liz Lemon and Leslie Knope: Post-Modernism and the... →
asleeponthebeach:
This is one of the best articles I’ve ever read in my life, and articulates exactly what I’ve been trying to say about the discourse about feminism presented by Parks & Rec and 30 Rock for the past year or so.
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MOTHERFUCKING YES
“I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able...”
– J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories (via weepling)
Funniest phrases on Tumblr
what-is-this-i-dont-even:
“Who do you think you are”
“What gives you the right”
“There is a moral panic in America over young women’s sexuality - and it’s...”
– Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth (via i-shoot-the-lights-out)
“Existence itself may be considered as an abyss possessed of no meaning. I do not...”
– Hakim Bey, Against the Reproduction of Death (c. 1988). (via la-ville-de-loubli)
“After sixteen years, who knew I would be on opium and in your arms.”
– sax4life.tumblr.com
Santorum: I Didn't Say 'Black People,' I Said... →
generalbriefing:
fearandwar:
A few days ago, GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum put his foot in his mouth by saying “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.”
Santorum allegedly made the controversial comments when discussing welfare in an interview Wednesday night with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, but he maintained that people misheard the...
“if i seem free it’s because i’m always running”
– jimi hendrix (via purelightkatja) 