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  • July 12th, 2012 11:54pm

    mfstrange:

    “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” – Jim Morrison

  • July 5th, 2012 1:33am

    Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.

    — Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via doubledaybooks)

  • July 3rd, 2012 4:14pm

    Natural storytellers are still around, and a few of them are very rich. Some are on the best-seller list; more are in television and film. But it’s probably that your impulse to write has little to do with the desire or skill to work out a plot. On the contrary, you want to write because you are sensitive. You have something to say that does not answer the question, what happened next? You share with most – and the best – twentieth-century fiction writers a sense of the injustice, the absurdity, and the beauty of the world; and you want to register your protest, your laughter, and your affirmation.

    — Janet Burroway – Writing Fiction; A guide to narrative craft

  • July 2nd, 2012 11:39am

    According to one Chinese statistic I came across recently, Tibet imported ten million tons of tea annually from China before the invasion. This cannot possibly be true as it implies that every Tibetan drank almost two tons per year. The figure was obviously invented to try to prove Tibet’s economic dependence on China, but it does give an indication of our fondness of tea.

    — Dalai Lama – Freedom In Exile 

  • June 30th, 2012 11:41am

    She was frightened because she was realizing – too late, too late – that what’s done can’t be undone, and what’s remembered must somehow be lived with ever after.

    — Stephen King. “Lisey’s Story”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

  • June 28th, 2012 1:29pm

    To again quote Bradbury, what optimal behaviors should we be taking to slow climate change or end wasteful oil subsidies or improve the health of our citizenry or protect the integrity of our food supply?

    We all want change on these issues, but it won’t come without action. When we look back in a year, we will want to be pleased with the sum of our work. We will want to see our hope create change through action. The Republicans continuously prove the method works. When will we do the work required to win?

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    While the individual mandate was found to be constitutional, a key lesson in the fight over health care reform is to realize how Republicans helped create this moment. In a post published prior to the today’s ruling, Chris Tackett argues that the environmental and sustainability movements need to think about creating situations or “realities” in which their goals can be politically feasible. 

    Read the rest: Whether Obamacare is Constitutional or Not, Republicans Created This Reality. A Lesson We Can’t Afford to Ignore

    (via treehugger)