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"Just started but oooohh shit I’m in for a good time" — Jul 02, 2024 11:51PM
"Just started but oooohh shit I’m in for a good time" — Jul 02, 2024 11:51PM
“Dumb hope is what it hurts most to write, occupying the foolish schemes we pursued for decades, the blind alleys, the cliffs we stepped off.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
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