December 2011
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November 2011
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- You are a slow learner, Winston.
- How can I help it? How can I help but...
– George Orwell, 1984
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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of...
– George Orwell, 1984
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Then you’ll keep going your way, and I’ll go mine. And we’ll...
– P.L.
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Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very...
– Valerie.
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Sure, other people are happier than I am most of the time, by their own...
– Anonymous
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Dag Hammarskjold
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When I say you smell good, I mean...
You make me think of fireflies and precisely five tiny beads of sweat on her Coppertoned neck, which was mine one weekend long ago. You make me taste buttered popcorn and Junior Mints and feel the scuffed movie theater seat on my bare calves, and you inspire visions of barbecued hamburgers and pudgy strawberries, purple soap and faded blue sheets.
- Steve Friedman
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- Pour l’honneur, laisse-moi rire, l’honneur c’est une idée d’aristocrate, tout le monde n’a pas les moyens d’avoir de l’honneur. L’ouvrier, le paysan, le boutiquier qui patauge dans la boue, reçoit des bombes sur la tête et des balles dans le corps, il s’en fout de l’honneur. Ce qu’il veut, c’est ne pas crever comme un chien et que cela s’arrête n’importe comment, mais que ca s’arrête à...
Imagining You and Me
Me: Take me away? Oh won't you please take me away?
You: Why?
Me: They're feeding on my happiness. I am almost always unhappy. I think it's the only way I'll be happy again.
You: You and me? It's quite out of the norm and acceptance of the people around us. (scoff) Still, even if it weren't, I don't think so. (chuckle)
Me: Why is that?
You: Because I am not real; I'm just in your head, love.
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In many ways the easy course for a president … is to adopt a truculent, publicly...
– Dwight Eisenhower
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J’ai toujours su que je ne serai la femme de personne, même la tienne. Même si...
– Gabrielle Chanel
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Même les romans les plus stupides ont quelque chose de vrai à dire.
– Gabrielle Chanel
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The Archipelago Of Kisses
We live in a modern society. Husbands and wives...
– Jeffrey McDaniel