February 2012
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When anger is all I have and why anger is my... →
So, instead of writing about choice I needed to pause and examine my anger. This anger which is cumulative, which grows inside me and overtakes my capability to articulate bigger pictures; this anger which, I am constantly told, is not “productive”. Because being angry in and by itself, it seems is not part of a political position. Well, I have news for those who obturate discussions on the basis...
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“In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die...”
– Patricia Highsmith (via devilduck)
“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via bellyfullawine)
“Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered,...”
– Jean Baudrillard
“Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you...”
– Thomas Kempis
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“On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other day: I am sure every girl can recall, at least once as a child, coming home and telling their parents, uncle, aunt or grandparent about a boy who had pulled her hair, hit her, teased her, pushed her or committed some other playground crime. I will bet money that most of those, if not all, will tell you that they were told “Oh,...
“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a...”
– James Joyce (via fabula)
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(314): CORAL IS FAR MORE RED THAN HER LIPS RED
(+04): Oh god you're Sonnet 130 drunk, aren't you.
“The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.”
– Edgar Watson Howe
“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via loveyourchaos)
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“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen...”
– Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (via farewell-kingdom)
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“Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad, as if mad is a different...”
– Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (via farewell-kingdom)
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Canadian History Superquiz, 1
1. Which sounds more correct to you, “The Harper Government,” or:
- We The People
- L’etat C’est Moi
- The Government of Canada
- One Ring To Rule Them All
2. Memorize these figures:
- 49th parallel
- 51st state
- 19th birthday
- 18 in Quebec and Alberta
3. Which speech put the most voters to sleep:
- “Let me reiterate at length what I just repeated” - Meighen
- “You’ll...
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