June 2011
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via therealbrooklyn)
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“In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you...”
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via usgroovykids)
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“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...”
– Fydor Dostoevsky
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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching… I have been bent and...”
– Charles Dickens
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Badlands
In the past couple of months I have read three different books that all featured, prominently, the area of the United States known as the Badlands, complete with all of the metaphors that come with it. Three different books. Three different genres.
Some things can move beyond coincidence in a real hurry.
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WatchThe new Bon Iver album: streaming.
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Often I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." I can see the shadowy lines of its trees, And catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen...
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“The loss of people writing- writing a composition, a letter or a report—...”
– David McCullough, in the June 20, 2011 edition of Time Magazine.
To all of which I say, “Amen”.
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