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December 2011
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Maya Angelou (via selected-memories)
”But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk, I ran up against the kids in our building and felt fortunate, after a few brushes with those little cannibals, to return to my reading in one piece.”
- Günter Grass
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“I feel that there is something in having passed one’s childhood beside the big...”
– T. S. Eliot, from a letter to Marquis Childs dated 15 October 1930 (via proustitute)
“One day after another—
Perfect.
They all fit.”
– Robert Creeley, “One Day” (via proustitute)
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“Among the alternatives to this “terror” is charity, one of the names (and...”
– Slavoj Žižek, “Guevara as a Reader of Rousseau,” Living in the End Times (via bbcity)
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know...”
– Billy, age 4 (via etiquette-etc)
“The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything...”
– James A. Baldwin
“Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a...”
– Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (via camanda)
The chills you get when you listen to music is...
This is caused by the release of a neurotransmitter called dopamine triggered by the music. The resulting chills alters the human body’s heart rate, breathing, temperature, and skin conductance. More pleasurable music increases the amount of dopamine released, contributing to more of the physical response. (source)
