September 2009
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There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other...
– Neil Gaiman (via loveyourchaos) (via intuitiveaptitude) (via flickflickflicker)
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Drake Ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem - Forever
Eminem killed it.
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The Authors' Roundtable
Holden Caulfield had it right. The test of a great book, he said in The Catcher in the Rye, was whether, once you finished it, you wished the author were a great friend you could call up at home. I remembered Caulfield’s insight when we convened a roundtable of writers to come to NEWSWEEK. The conversation was honest, and a persistent theme emerged: that for all the frustrations of writing,...
Think big when you have lots of constrains to try and push the envelope of what...
– from the Q+A section of the website for the book Never Sleep (via paulhabeeb)
When we explain action in terms of desires and beliefs we are not putting...
– Anthony Kenny : Free Will and Responsibility (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
Vanessa Paradis - Dès que j’te vois
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I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today...
– David Foster Wallace speaking in an interview with Larry McCaffery. Foster Wallace died one year ago today. (via paulhabeeb)
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Is Your Baby Racist?
At the Children’s Research Lab at the University of Texas, a database is kept on thousands of families in the Austin area who have volunteered to be available for scholarly research. In 2006 Birgitte Vittrup recruited from the database about a hundred families, all of whom were Caucasian with a child 5 to 7 years old….
It was no surprise that in a liberal city like Austin, every parent was a...
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MUTATION by Daniel Zagórski
“… every day’s winning with Matrix it is and more boring for He is too slow to notice … curved Einstein’s space … dull joke for I walk on it on the other side… and your’s electrons they are nails with far-gone moron … don’t greet them from me thery wouldn’t be listening with me like Bjork screaming to whales … for it is not so simple as ...
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be...
– Marcus Aurelius (via fairphantom)
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FIVE things you wish you could say to FIVE different people right now: • I love you. • I love you. • I love you. • I love you. • Thank you. TEN things about yourself:
**look to the left** SEVEN ways to win your heart: • Appreciates music and art • Great conversation • Having a good sense of humor • Honest • Being yourself • ...
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Changing sheets and doing laundry are the chores of my work and I think...
– —Jenna, Manhattan 2007
via Tiana Markova-Gold
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You Are Your Own Glass Ceiling
I found this article very interesting…sprinkled with truth, as a matter of fact. Read on ladies…
We’ve come a long way, ladies. But here’s why good girls still finish last.
By Jessica Bennett | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Aug 31, 2009
I did a media-training session with a couple of colleagues a few weeks back, to hone our on-camera skills. There were seven of us—four men,...
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“Maximus” (ft. Sam Sparro) - Beni
Okay…despite my saying (approximately 5 minutes ago) that I totally believe in trying things and nothing is impossible, I think I can flat out tell you that I will NEVER be able to dance as well as the kids in this video. Even the little 5-year-old (or so he appears). The one in the grey sweater in the supermarket…my goodness he’s cute. I’d...
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The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about...
– George Orwell in ‘Why I Write’ (via paulhabeeb)