February 2012
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“Nobody has to endure any real risk of involuntary smoke inhalation, and no...”
– Christopher Hitchens on the smoking ban
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“Shut your eyes and see.”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
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I wonder what the world would be like if racists knew that about one hundred thousand years ago all of our ancestors lived in Africa, were African, and walked out of Africa not that long ago. I really do feel that the word ‘race’ is a horrible creation; we’re one species, and differing physical characteristics are more than entirely irrelevant.
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“A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can...”
– George Orwell
I’ve been awake 36 hours, and I’m almost certain that the levels of caffeine in my bloodstream are bordering on the toxic
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I keep having sex dreams involving literary icons. I really need to stop reading and get out of the goddamn house.
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Permafrost // Magazine
Thunder shook loose hail...
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We are all receding - waving or beckoning or just kissing our fingertips, we are all fading, shrinking, paling. Life is all losing, we are all losing, losing mother, father, youth, hair, looks, teeth, friends, lovers, shape, reason, life. We are losing, losing, losing. Take life away. It’s too hard, too difficult. We aren’t any good at it. Try us out on something else. But shelve life. Take life...
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“There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues, but for me they cannot...”
– Christopher Hitchens on antidepressants
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“Politics is so full of ego and greed. I’m fed up with it all. I’m reaching the...”
– Peter Capaldi (via dosscunt)
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William It Was Really Nothing // The Smiths
“The unstoppably inflating awards buisness exists to reward sponsors, to pacify...”
– Christopher Hitchens, “These Glittering Prizes,” Vanity Fair, January 1993
I can agree with the anarchist who says: no one is good enough to be another’s controller, but I suspect, still, that as a principle, such a statement is imperative but unworkable.
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Those who concern themselves with the treatment of animals are frequently accused of sentimentality or of putting the difficulties of animals before the immense troubles of humanity. But I find that it is quite rare to find a humanitarian who is indifferent to animals, and astonishingly common to find that those who disparage animal rights are the same ones who find the suffering of humans easy to...
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