May 2012
4 posts
April 2012
14 posts
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The...
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via freins)
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via bittersweet-expectations)
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January 2012
1 post
December 2011
18 posts
Olivia!
You should go on Skype since you seem to be on tumblr just like me, at this late hour.
And cause I miss you.
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"The Simple Truth", Phillip Levine
I bought a dollar and a half’s worth of small red potatoes, took them home, boiled them in their jackets and ate them for dinner with a little butter and salt. Then I walked through the dried fields on the edge of town. In middle June the light hung on in the dark furrows at my feet, and in the mountain oaks overhead the birds were gathering for the night, the jays and mockers squawking...
What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things...
– Dave Eggers (via brighteryellow)
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Doing Economics Homework
“Country A produces three things: popcorn, paperback novels and running shoes.”
This sounds like my kind of country.
November 2011
8 posts
I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
shit this is scary.
I Should Be Studying For History.
Instead I am reading about Zelda Fitzgerald.
maggitarwv:
“Last year, we created enough food to feed 11 billion people. And yet, of the 7 billion people we have, a billion of them struggle with hunger. So what is up with that? Well, about half of that food was fed to cows, chickens, and pigs. So…that’s a problem.”
-Hank Green (“7,000,000,000 People”)
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One Celled-Organism Apartment Houses! →
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October 2011
14 posts