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About Me

Wise Words:
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." - Clementine Paddleford
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and hides what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we all have something to hide.-Susanna Kaysen
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." - Oscar Wilde
“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.” - Plutarch
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. - Terry Josephson
You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.”
- Art Buchwald
"When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy." - Ovid
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
"Each of us bears his own Hell." - Virgil
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing." - Sylvia Plath
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." - Frank Herbert
“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.” - Hesiod
"By daily dying I have come to be." - Theodore Roethke
"We become aware of the void as we fill it." - Antonio Porchia
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." - Aldous Huxley
"Skin is a covering for our immortality." - Ever Garrison
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - W. Somerset Maugham
"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live." - Charles Bukowski
An eternal student, a seeker and an aries with significant pisces tendencies (born on the astrological cusp of rebirth).


My Blog

Movies

June 2009Reality BitesThe Last SupperHalloweenMirror MirrorDolly DearestFrom BeyondAmusement VulgarThe Dark KnightThe Act of Seeing With One's Own EyesKiller Klowns from Outer SpaceAliceCat's Eye [Gen...
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For Desire | Kim Addonizio

Give me the strongest cheese, the one that stinks best;and I want the good wine, the swirl in crystalsurrendering the bruised scent of blackberries,or cherries, the rich spurt in the backof the thro...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:59:00 GMT

BOOK LIST

ALREADY READ THIS YEAR:The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutWatership Down by Richard AdamsVerses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POE...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:35:00 GMT

As It Is

For those who don't know, the Bhagavad-G+t is a sacred Hindu text. The As It Is edition was translated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (the founder of ISKCON) into english. ISKCON gained popul...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:25:00 GMT

Reasons why I am a bad kisser.

By Mary Ruefle Because I open my mouth too wideTrying to take in the curtains behind usAnd everything outside the windowExcept the little black dogWho does not like meSo at the last moment I shut my m...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:28:00 GMT

A New Year

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:52:00 GMT

This world is just...


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on the inside

I'm feeling
Posted by on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:03:00 GMT

we are all made of stars

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Girls by Nic Kelman

"You will let her dress you, let her teach you new dances, take you to new clubs, new bars, because even though you know it does not really matter, it matters to her. You will let her take you to a di...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:14:00 GMT