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Monica

About Me



I've learnt not to say too much about myself, since whenever I do, there is always something to contradict it, and I don't want to seem too hypocritical, or arrogant, or petty, or anything else that I may or may not be.

"The humiliation I go through
when I think of my past
can only be described as grace.
We are created by being destroyed."

-- Franz Wright, from “Letter, January 1998"

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



"For him, sleep is not the opposite of life; sleep is life, and life is a dream."

--Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

Music:

Empathy music--the kind that moves and understands you.
None of that rap gibberish or country gobble-dee-gook.

Movies:

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." --John Keating, Dead Poets Society

Books:

"...proof that there were no 'good old days.'"
Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, Tobias Wolff's In the Garden of North American Martyrs

Heroes:

Whatever motivates, inspires, or amuses.