January 2012
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tears are easier to put up with than joy. joy is destructive: it makes others uncomfortable. “weep and you weep alone” —what a lie that is! weep and you will find a million crocodiles to weep with you. the world is forever weeping. the world is drenched in tears. laughter, that’s another thing. laughter is momentary—it passes. but joy, joy is a kind of ecstatic bleeding, a...
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after the christmas thing was over, the goddam picture started. it was so putrid i couldn’t take my eyes off it. it was about this english guy, Alec something, that was in the war and loses his memory in the hospital and all. he comes out of the hospital carrying a cane and limping all over the place, all over london, not knowing who the hell he is. he’s really a duke, but he...
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December 2011
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the overjustification effect →
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a great chance for a desolate emptiness
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November 2011
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sleep all day and climb trees at night
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don't believe the dreams they pump you full of
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October 2011
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“i’m no goddam animal. i may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son...”
– j.d. salinger; nine stories, pretty mouth and green my eyes
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