May 2013
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everything else fades away
when you are denied your right to housing
May 9th
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April 2013
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timeimmemorial: One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day. — Recipe For Happiness In Khabarovsk Or Any Place, Ferlinghetti  
Apr 30th
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h0odrich: i wear all black cause everywhere its a funeral for everyone im stylin on
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No Taste for Industry
Czar: “I have heard the American kitchen is miserable. All the foods are prepared on a big scale and they have no individual taste or flavor. Is that true?” Chaliapin: “Yes, Your Majesty, that it true. They have a flavor of American corporations and speculation.” Czar: “That I think is the drawback of the American conditions as far as I have heard. The trusts can manufacture iron and other...
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In Praise of Very Large Staircases: A Brief... →
Jane Jacobs, the great champion of urban living, stoops were as integral to the health of a city as parks, sidewalks, and street life. In our own era, as prices of townhouses soar and they once again become the domain of the city’s wealthiest residents, will the stoop survive as a neighborhood gathering place? Or are we on the verge of a new Gilded Age?
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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers  (via human-voices)
Apr 3rd
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“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (via human-voices)
Apr 3rd
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March 2013
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Mar 28th
Bill Gates funds condoms: Gates pledges $100,000... →
Bill Gates’ latest charitable contribution in the field of public health: $100,000 to the inventor of a condom that actually feels good. Grand Challenges in Global Health, a research foundation established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is offering the grant money for the best “testable hypothesis” for “the next generation condom,” one that “significantly preserves or enhances...
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“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (via human-voices)
Mar 12th
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“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via human-voices)
Mar 12th
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“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad...”
– Clarice Lispector, A Hora Da Estrela (via human-voices)
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February 2013
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“Our heart survives between hammers, just as the tongue between the teeth is...”
– Rilke, Duino Elegy 9 (trans. A. Poulin)
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Max Sebald's Writing Tips →
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can’t think of a mental task as painful as studying for standardized testing at the age of 25. memorizing prime numbers is heartbreakingly boring.
Feb 6th
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January 2013
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