June 2012
“all I want is a room up there
and you in it
and even the traffic halt so thick...”
– “Steps” by Frank O’Hara
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“Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost...”
– Osho (via loveyourchaos)
“the Pittsburgh Pirates shout because they won
and in a sense we’re all...”
– “Steps” by Frank O’Hara
What exactly is Obamacare and what does it change?... →
marxisforbros:
What people call “Obamacare” is actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, people were calling it “Obamacare” before everyone even hammered out what it would be. It’s a term mostly used by people who don’t like the PPaACA, and it’s become popularized in part because PPaACA is a really long and awkward name, even when you turn it into an acronym like that.
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“Maybe young women don’t wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in...”
– Nora Ephron (via thatkindofwoman)
“I’m very conscious of how easy it is to let people down on a day like this,...”
– From the late NORA EPHRON’s commencement address at Wellesley College, 1996 (via inothernews)
Seriously though, you should probably download my... →
idealistically:
“Yet these perfect girls still feel we could always lose five more pounds. We get into good colleges but are angry if we don’t get into every college we applied to. We are the captains of the basketball teams, the soccer stars, the swimming state champs with boxes full of blue ribbons. We win scholarships galore, science fairs and knowledge bowls, spelling bees and mock trial...
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be...”
– Ray Bradbury (via therabbitfoottree)
“Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days.
Look up for blue sky...”
– Things to do in the belly of a Whale by Dan Albergotti (via atomiclanterns)
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“The little panda used to be the type of panda who dreamed of falling in a kind...”
– The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein, p. 207
“Don’t be afraid. The future is not disguised
as sleep. It is a tango. It...”
– Traci Brimhall, from “Through a Glass Darkly” (via flakkery)
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“So when the world knocks at your front door, clutch the knob and open on up,...”
– Anis Mojgani (excerpt from Shake the Dust)
