April 2010
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On how you look at it.
dearcoketalk:
What’s your advice for a nineteen year old girl that has never been in a relationship of any kind or never even kissed a boy?
It doesn’t matter how old you are. Stop referring to yourself as a “never been,” and start considering yourself an “about to be.”
Truth.
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“I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to...”
– Kim Addonizio, What Do Women Want?
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[Damn The Circumstances, Madeleine Peyroux]
Damn...
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“During 1985 and 1986, the United States, which was leading the campaign to...”
– William L. Cleveland and Martin Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East (Fourth Edition)
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“It’s the sort of expression that looks devastating in a photograph but...”
– David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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Is it Possible to Learn So Much Your Brain Gets...
newsweek:
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bellcurved:
Northwestern psychology Prof. Paul Reber answers in Scientific American. Excerpt:
The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have...
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“There is so little to remember of anyone — an anecdote, a conversation at...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
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“When you laugh it is all the unsynchronized clocks
in the watchmaker’s...”
– Susan Glickman, Poem About Your Laugh
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“Sometimes you get to be the you that escaped. The version of yourself that...”
– Anonymous, transcending | Saturday Night
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“Whole days would go by, and later their years,
while I thought of nothing but...”
– Frank O’Hara, River
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“There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles,...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
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“On rainy days I ache as if a train
were about to arrive, I switch my tracks.”
– Frank O’Hara, ‘Grand Central’
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