February 2012
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“for just a moment then i wanted nothing that i had and everything i did not”
– hempel
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tom-rock through the eels
My head against a small synthetic pillow, I think: Mothers. They teach their daughters to use pumice on their heels, and to roll a lemon inside its skin before slicing, to bring out the juice. My mother said men, unless they were sober, what they meant when they asked you to marry was that you looked nice in that dress, or they liked your hair that way.
Every so often we tried to shop together,...
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“Unfortunately,” he typed as he started the next sentence, and in the truth of that word a bad day came to an end… -David Finkel, “One Day at War”
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“he married the most beautiful woman he ever saw and learned the irrelevance of...”
– three popes walk into a bar
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the most girl part of you
Big Guy is going to kiss me.
And here is the thrill of my short life: He does.
I want him to know what it clearly seems to me: that if it’s true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive. -Amy Hempel
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can you fall for someone you’ve never met?
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Happy Valentine’s Day.
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“And that, I think, was the handle— that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting— on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up...
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“courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”
– mark twain
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It’s about the sentences. It’s about the way the sentences move in the paragraphs. It’s about rhythm. It’s about ambiguity. It’s about the way emotion, in difficult circumstances, gets captured in language. It’s about instants of consciousness. It’s about besieged consciousness. It’s about love trouble. It’s about death. It’s about...
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“did you know that when they taught the first chimp to talk, it lied? that when...”
– in the cemetery where al jolson is buried
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