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vintageanchor: Ellen DeGeneres was asked to record the new...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:38:00 -0400

Ellen DeGeneres was asked to record the new steamy novel “50 Shades of Grey” for the audio book. Things didn’t go according to plan.

Check out this video from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”…

sandysouls: I’m In The Middle Of “A Christmas Carol” & The...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:54:03 -0400

sandysouls:

I’m In The Middle Of “A Christmas Carol” & The Movie Which I’ve Never Seen Just Came On, So Content

evil-efil: c.s. lewis

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:48:54 -0400

evil-efil:

c.s. lewis

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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:46:48 -0400

doonlibrary: Love it! Every home should have one! Available...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:46:28 -0400

doonlibrary:

Love it!

Every home should have one!

Available from Walker Books

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:42:27 -0400

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”

- Charles Bukowski (via quotes-shape-us)

11 year old: I really like the Hunger Games, I can't wait to see the movie!

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:22:11 -0400

11 year old: I really like the Hunger Games, I can't wait to see the movie!
Me: Have you read the books?
11 year old: No, this is the 21st century, no one reads books any more!!!
Me:
Jesus:
Rick Riordan:
Suzanne Collins:
JK Rowling:
Cavemen:
The world:
Aliens:
Police: So you're saying they just jumped off the cliff ... ?

"I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:18:12 -0400

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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.

I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.

I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.

I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.

I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.

I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.

I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.

I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

”

- Neil Gaiman, American Gods (via supprosetry)

"One of the great things about reading is that no matter where you are in your life or what you're going through, you can just sit down and read a book, and really lose yourself in it and let your imagination run wild"

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:15:26 -0400

floweringrose:

- Josh Hutcherson

"I learned a long time ago that life often introduces young people to situations they are in no way..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:08:41 -0400

“I learned a long time ago that life often introduces young people to situations they are in no way prepared for, even good girls, lucky girls who want for nothing. Sometimes, when you least expect it, you become the girl in the woods. You lose your name because another one is forced on you. You think you are alone until you find books about girls like you. Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds.”

- From Roxane Gay’s superb, truly incredible essay on strength, stories, and the Hunger Games. (via mollitudo)

"You think you are alone until you find books about girls like you."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:08:01 -0400

“You think you are alone until you find books about girls like you.”

- Roxane Gay on The Rumpus.net (via rachelfershleiser)

"Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:07:44 -0400

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.”

- Timothy Leary (via larmoyante)

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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:52:52 -0400

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’”

- ― Hunter S. Thompson (via dommy-tsunami)

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"I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:44:05 -0400

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I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you…. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.

I began to ask each time: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?” Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, “disappeared” or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.

Next time, ask: What’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.

And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

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- Audre Lorde (via diamondmind)

"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:40:47 -0400

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”

- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You (via gildings)

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