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This is fantastic so please watch if you haven’t already seen or heard it. From the late great David Foster Wallace. ( and now made into a short film.)
 

Shane Koyczan

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Michael Ondaajte, The English Patient  (via anovelisamirrorwalkingdownaroad)

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anovelisamirrorwalkingdownaroad:

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” 
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”
American Gods, written by Neil Gaiman

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newyorker:

Cartoon by Harry Bliss. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/RlF99m

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newyorker:

Cartoon by Liam Francis Walsh. For more: http://nyr.kr/T20qle

republicanidiots:

sydneydiana:

get involved

www.now.org
www.rawa.org
www.womenslaw.org
www.amnestyusa.org
www.globalissues.org
www.globalfundforwomen.org

These are so beautifully done.

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questionableadvice:

~ The Duties of a Ladies’ Maid; with Directions for Conduct, and Numerous Receipts for the Toilette, James Bulcock, 1825

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anovelisamirrorwalkingdownaroad:

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” 

 Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

suicideblonde:

Downton Abbey 

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Catcher in the Rye: J.D Salinger