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Be kind. Book of K.
1. this is perfectly good advice 2. “none of us are getting out of here alive” is the kind of suspiciously specific denial a secret immortal would say
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I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
I was trying to formulate what I’m feeling about… everything, because I don’t have it in me to be as angry or scared all the time as 2018 deserves. This is what I settled on.
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The universe is indifferent. We ought not to be.
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Iron Man is proof that even broken hearts can still beat strong.“
Anthony Breznican “Last Night, A Superhero Saved My Life” (via avidreader6)
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— vincent van gogh
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I am laughing so hard oh my god clickhole
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If you just scrolled past, don’t. Go back and read it. I promise it is not what you think
Franzen has a point.
It started out so philosophically and then I lost it at the swimming pool of police… 😆😆😆😆😆
I relate to so many of these… LOL
Source: clickhole.com
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- Leonard Cohen
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“I think we all do heroic things. But hero is not a noun, it is a verb.” - RDJ
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By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!
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In the past, racially offensive jokes, remarks about your female colleague’s breasts or cracks about ‘spastics’ were considered a reasonable element of daily banter both in and outside the workplace. Now they are not. We have abandoned them for the same reason we no longer burn witches at the stake or stick orphaned children in the poorhouse. We have moved on. Values change, societies develop and their language and behavior evolve with them. That’s not political correctness but social and political progress. It is not imposed by liberal diktat but established by civic consensus. Those who are unwilling or unable to move on are welcome to their words and views. But like anyone else who engages in antisocial behavior, once they act on these impulses they must live with the consequences. Those who struggle with this are not so much living in the past as struggling to accept the present. For what they are really arguing for is the right both to be insensitive and for that insensitivity to go unchallenged. The first is their right–but, like all rights, it comes with both responsibilities and ramifications. The same freedom of speech that allows you to disparage large groups of people also allows those people to mobilize public opinion and legislation against you if you do so.
Gary Younge, Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the Twenty-First Century? (via sociologistbridget)
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Last week, Exton refused to go to sleep. I told Susan, “I got this.” We were both up until 3:09 a.m. But as far as straight-up failure, I don’t want to talk about failure. I want to talk about moments of humility. Like when you feel suddenly sick and embarrassed but then you have to continue on to the next moment immediately in full view of others. Because it’s not failure if you just recognize, I fell short, and that’s okay.
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I find myself really relating to this paragraph from the Welcome to Night Vale novel
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I think about telling my dad, who worked for 46 years on the railroad, ‘Somebody offered me $100,000 to put my song in a movie, and I said no because it’s a stupid movie.’ He would want to kill me. The idea of selling out is only understandable to people of privilege.
Jeff Tweedy, of Wilco, explaining that to make a living at music, one must sell said music. (via nailure)
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If at this point you are objecting because you do or do not like Alexander Hamilton’s take on federalism, the National Bank, or some other issue, first of all, congratulations on being very well-educated and, secondly, you’re missing the point.
“Hamilton” succeeds not because of intellectual points scored but because it captures, so deftly, the feeling of America, the free-wheeling freedom that courses through every patriot, the refusal to back down from a fight, the do-or-die edginess of revolution. We’ve enshrined American heroes on such high pedestals, we’ve forgotten there was something wild about them, something almost crazy. The revolutionaries in “Hamilton” are “the hungriest brothers with something to prove.” They spit and spin and swear and fight each other as well as the enemy.
The hip-hop and rap songs bring that energy back to the forefront. The sound of rebellion now adapts amazingly well to rebellion then. The multiracial cast brings it home.
With the backdrop of this energy, this hunger echoed in the style of the streets, the musical drives home the remarkable moments of history: The mind-blowing idea that subjects would declare themselves free and capable of self-government, the incredible idea that George Washington would willingly relinquish power, the concept that disagreements could be solved by debate (or rap battle) rather than by guns.
Grammy Winner ‘Hamilton’ Reminds Us Of America’s Greatness (The Federalist)
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The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches. A missed increase or decrease, a crooked seam, a place where the tension is uneven - the mistake is a crack left open to let in the light. The evil sprit I want to usher out of my knitting and my life is at once a spirit of laziness and of over-achieving. It’s that little voice in my head that says, I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.
Kyoko Mori, ‘Yarn’
That last phrase especially - “I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.” It really is like some kind of all-encompassing evil sprit sometimes.
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as you know, the immune system walks a fine line between being absolutely useless and killing you
immunology professor this week (via hyacinth-willow)
I mean, a fever is basically your immune system going, “LET’S SEE WHO BURNS FIRST, MOTHERFUCKER.”
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