December 2011
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When someone asks me what I've done today..
onewildandpreciouslife:
…pretty much EAT all day. you know, the usual.
the greatest truth.
I helped cook for 30 people today at my hostel in Auckland - 6 chickens, 6KG of potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, honey glazed carrots and parsnips, kumara mash, meatballs, gravy, bread sauce. Two days of cooking. TWO DAYS. I don’t drink at all but jesus I needed the g & t that I...
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Damn you Tumblr, for a minute there I thought Freida Pinto had actually been cast as Arianne Martell! THIS WEBSITE IS MAKING ME TAKE THINGS AT FACE VALUE WITHOUT CHECKING CONTEXT, HELP.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor's final volume of his pre-war... →
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Experience of a totalitarian system of the communist type, makes emphatically...
– Vaclav Havel - dissident, Czech playwright and former President of the Czech Republic
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You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this...
– Former Czech Republic leader Vaclav Havel • Writing in his 1978 essay, “Power of the Powerless,” about his dissident status in the former Czechoslovakia, a status he eventually broke free from after he rose to become the country’s leader. Not that he took a particularly normal path to the top —...
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The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is...
– Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer (2007)
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That’s why I write fiction — so that I can keep telling the story. I return to...
– Jeanette Winterson, Weight (via distantheartbeats
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