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"It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder."
— Emma Thompson (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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"All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over."
— Eugene Field, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac (via excessivebookshelf)
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Rain installation by Stacee Kalmanovsky To replicate the natural phenomenon, she created this installation of beads attached to a fishing line, hung underneath a glass ceiling. It’s as if she froze time, along with the rain drops in mid-air.
"Tell your secrets."
— Allen Ginsberg, when asked, “How does one become a prophet?” Recalled by Lewis Hyde in Trickster Makes This World, where he writes “Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.” (Quoted by Frank in his post on shame and Louis CK)
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