February 2010
“I once hand made a girlfriend a 50 page leather bound book. It was an illustrated fairy tale about a princess and an eccentric magician. The magician had his heart broken so badly in the past that instead of keeping it in his chest where it could easily get hurt again, he kept it locked up in a rusty trunk under his bed, where it had withered into a shriveled apricot. a lot happens that cant really be summed up in one paragraph, but at the end, his apricot heart swells to the size of a house and they end up living happily ever after inside of it. It took me about a month to make, it was all rhyming, hand painted… something i was pretty gosh darn proud of. I really poured a lot into it, and I think its filled with some of my best paintings yet. Sadly in real life the story didnt end as happy as it did in the book. Lets just say I’m living alone in that giant apricot heart at the moment.”
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Matthew Gray Gubler
[I dig the swollen apricot heart house imagery. I’d read a book like this to my students.]
January 2010
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
—G.K. Chesterton
“A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
—William Styron
“Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius. And it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
—Marilyn Monroe
“I would encourage people to look around them in their community and find an organization that is doing something that they believe in, even if that organization has only five people, or ten people, or twenty people, or a hundred people. And to look at history and understand that when change takes place it takes place as a result of large, large numbers of people doing little things unbeknownst to one another. And that history is very important for people to not get discouraged. Because if you look at history you see the way the labor movement was able to achieve things when it stuck to its guns, when it organized, when it resisted. Black people were able to change their condition when they fought back and when they organized. Same thing with the movement against the war in Vietnam, and the women’s movement. History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.”
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Howard Zinn
today is the death of one of my heroes
(via vegankitsch)
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cannot find food.
(The Ultimate Book of Useless Information)
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“He blew his nose with the air of a man who had received an affront to his dignity.”
—Dostoevsky
