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6/1/2012
"Take “Anyone Can Whistle,” the Stephen Sondheim song. In it he says that the hardest things are simple and the most natural things are hard. I firmly believe people who are artists, actors, writers, have a missing place in them, a hole, something they weren’t given enough of. I don’t know if it’s affection or love or attention, but something’s missing. And I believe that to fill that void, they create a make-believe world. People make comments that I always seem to play such strong, powerful people. It’s the complete antithesis of who I am. I do it unconsciously to try to be what I’m not."

— Mandy Patinkin, interview for Actors At Work (via viceprincipalgupta)

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6/1/2012

heathyr:

Sometimes it scares me how people can look at me and instantly know things about me.

When I went traveling through Europe in 2009, my friend and I stayed with her ex-boyfriend in Berlin, Germany for a couple days. We were out walking at night and some guys asked my friend to take a picture of them (and of course they all dropped their pants to show a row of asses for the photo, but that is neither here nor there) and as my friend was doing that, laughing her ass off, it left me and her ex standing back behind them, kind of cut off and able to talk to each other for a minute. He looked at me a minute and said to me, “So you’re different from Tess, aren’t you?”I asked him what he meant, and he said, “You’re… you’re more innocent. Less out there. Quiet.” He looked at me like I was something to be figured out, and it was strange to have someone see something in you that you didn’t even know you were broadcasting.

Today, the same thing kind of happened. I was talking with a future roomate, getting to know each other, and he said to me, “You… I bet you’re innocent in experience but you seem like someone who is knowledgeable about things anyways. You’d probably get all our gross or political jokes or terminology, but you’re still new.”

It kind of scares me that I can be read like that. How someone could look at me and know things about me.

It’s kind of incredible, but strange at the same time.

6/1/2012

larmoyante:

Original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland hand written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll, 1862

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6/1/2012
"I forgive not because I became a saint, but because I’m tired of hating."

— Hilai, Aleph - Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)

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6/1/2012

unhistorical:

June 1, 1857: Les Fleurs du mal is published.

Charles Baudelaire’s controversial book of poetry was divided into six sections, those being “Spleen and Ideal”, “Parisian Scenes”, “Wine”, the eponymous “Flowers of Evil”, “Revolt”, and “Death”. The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal sold out within a year of its publication, made possible largely by the scandal that arose because of Baudelaire’s “obscene” works, which according to judges incited in his readers “the excitement of the senses by a crude realism offensive to public decency”. The second edition, released in 1861, was published missing six poems (all of which remained banned until 1949).

The six censored poems were Lesbos, Women Doomed (In the pale glimmer…), Lethe, To One Who is Too Gay, The Jewels, and The Vampire’s Metamorphoses.

Some choice lines…

Lesbos, of sultry twilights and pure, infertile joy,
Where deep-eyed maidens, thoughtlessly disrobing, see
Their beauty, and are entranced before their mirrors, and toy
Fondly with the soft fruits of their nubility;
Lesbos, of sultry twilights and pure, infertile joy! (“Lesbos”)

The strong beauty kneeling before the frail beauty, 
Superb, she savored voluptuously 
The wine of her triumph and stretched out toward the girl 
As if to reap her reward of sweet thankfulness. (“Women Doomed”)

To punish your bombastic flesh, 
To bruise your breast immune to pain, 
To farrow down your flank a lane 
Of gaping crimson, deep and fresh. (“To One Who is Too Gay”)

When she had sucked my marrow dry, I turned,
Languid, to give her back the kiss she earned,
Only to view, I fond and amorous,
A viscid wineskin, nidorous with pus… (“The Vampire’s Metamorphoses”)

6/1/2012
"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."

— Robert A. Wilson (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)

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6/1/2012

weareallstarstuff:

Forever reblog.

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6/1/2012
"I think we tend to be a bit hypocritical about ourselves… We are capable of the greatest good and the greatest evil, and the problem is that often we can’t distinguish between them when it suits our purpose."

— Stanley Kubrick, in conversation with film critic Michel Ciment about The Shining in 1980. (via vashti)

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6/1/2012
"Ninety percent of the world’s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves."

—  Sydney J. Harris (via heartmindawakening)
6/1/2012
"Imagine if we could be tourists in each other’s consciousness? We would all accept and understand each other far better than we do now. Might get boring though, I say we just keep murdering each other for no good reason."

— Aaron Funk (via semavore)

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