March 2012
103 posts
To Akasha:
There is a lot to consider about contemporary institutions of higher education and the stress the whole system is under. There are so many schools and so many people attending them. Not every school is Cambridge. People being layabouts isn’t a new phenomenon - those people would not have gone to college before they were told they had to. Since people who are truly engaged and...
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“And reading my own life with loathing, I tremble and curse.”
– Pushkin, from the epigraph of Anne Sexton’s “Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems (1971)” (via batarde)
“Behind every erotic condemnation there’s a burning hypocrite.”
– Susie Bright (via laufeysson)
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thepetitesophisticate:
When I was in pre-K and we’d act out fairy tales, I always wanted to be the fairy godmother rather than the heroine. When I was in kindergarten and we’d play James Bond, I wanted to be Miss Moneypenny rather than a love interest. When I was a freshman in high school and we all got AOL accounts, I was Spinster4. I suspect I have issues. In fact, I know it.
Sadie...
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“are you staring at the wall again? you’re freaking me out.”
– lisa, my roommate in the hospital, kept saying this to me, and i kept trying to explain that i stare at the wall for a living. (via karaj)
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