Stuff I like
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People like to break things.
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“The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.”
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An Angry Birds cartoon of the day. Enter our cartoon caption contest and see more cartoons from the issue.
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“Ellen, only last night, asked, ‘Daddy, when will we be rich?’ But I did not say to her what I know: ‘We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty...”
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Yup.
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“I dont want dark grey. I am looking for more of a light black.”
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Lady Gaga vs. M. Bison - Who rocked it better? (via @Buzzfeed)
I have to go with Bison. If there was ever a hat not meant to...
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“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
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“More kids age 2-to-5 can operate a smartphone application (19%) than tie their shoelaces (9%).”— mental_floss via The Week
“Kafka’s suggestion as to how his story might be illustrated, if it had to be illustrated—not, pace Nabokov, with an entomologically or coleopterically correct beetle… but with a picture of a man lying in bed.”
-Michael Hofmann
Audrey on the cover of an old Playboy? What would I do without you Tumblr?Shouldn’t the caption read, “Sherilyn Fenn’s Twin Peaks”?
(via bbook)
“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
from American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Just finished last night. This book is a freaking gem.
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused, frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled moral and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Sallinger (via atomos)
Pumped Up Kicks, Lollapalooza edition. Its cute that people are listening to this jam now, when the cool kids were doing it eight months ago.
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C.S. Lewis (via chinolatino)
I must confess - the curated Tumblr Lit tag is one of my favorite things on the internet.
