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Rejection Minimization Theorem
Sort of feeling “eh” about the book as a whole right now (with hope it is still going to pick up-“Looking For Alaska” took some time for me to feel great about too), but I can certainly relate. This excerpt is damn close to something I might actually say/think/do:
“Colin frequently faltered when it came to the step of actual kissing. He had a ( Read more... ) -
thanatos / d.d.
On Monday, I had a ridiculous frustration attack; where nothing felt like it was going as I wanted it to and that the world was just wrong. Wrong conceptually, mechanically, in every way, shape, and form. The people on it were inane, inept, and insane. And I was stuck, lost, helpless in it. There was no silver lining and madness was the truthI’m ( Read more... ) -
"what no one ever tells you...
"What no one ever tells you, because we wouldn't listen anyway, is that contrary to accepted cliché, any kind of fame or notoriety doesn't actually change you. What it does, is to make you more clearly yourself. It magnifies the good and bad in you. In my case, fifty percent of me is smart, charming, self-deprecating, painfully shy but otherwise ( Read more... ) -
our work is never over
work it, work it, work it, work it (harder, harder, harder, harder),
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God Only Knows what I'd be without you.
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"Sometimes I live in the country,
Sometimes I live in the town;
Sometimes I get a great notion
To jump into the river . . . an’ drown."
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“Let’s see if I’ve got this straight,” he returned. It was a phrase of hers that he had adopted. “It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, and there’s this couple lying naked in bed reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more ‘numinous’ than the Resurrection. Do they know how to ( Read more... ) -
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This isn't Christmas, this is Chinatown,
and those are pretty lights.
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