One of my favorite Conor quotes.
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Source: idontcareimjustinspiredI'm Amanda. I care about things that matter and a lot of things that don't and I have better taste in music than you do. I have 2 cats and a lot of opinions.
5 months ago
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"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for."
- Earl Warren, 1891-1974. Supreme Court Justice on Brown v. Board (via warmbesideyoursmile)
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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"People think of education as something they can finish."
- Isaac Asimov (via warmbesideyoursmile)
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8 months ago
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"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody."
8 months ago
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"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?"
- bell hooks (via queerjezebel)
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10 months ago
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"I hate the word homophobia. You’re not scared. You’re an asshole."
- Morgan Freeman (via warmbesideyoursmile)
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10 months ago
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"I think it’s great for two people to be together. That is a good number. I think, that to keep it alive though, you can’t spend every day together. It wears out the magic, Love means nothing to me if it’s not fortified with fierce, painful longing, brief explosive instances of furious passion and intimacy and then a sad parting for a time. In that way, you can give your life to it and still have a life of your own. I think some couples spend too much time together. They flatten out the potential for experience by constant closeness. Passion builds over time like steam. Let it rage until it’s exhausted and then leave it alone to let it build up again. Why can’t love be insane and distorted? How can it be vital if it has the same threshold as normal day-to-day experience? Why can’t you write burning letters and let your nocturnal self smolder with desire for one who is not there? Why not let the days before you see her be excruciating and ferment in your mind so on the day you go to the airport to pick her up, you’re nearly sick with anticipation? And then when desire shows the first sign of contentment, throw it back it its cage and let it slowly build itself back into a state of starved fury. Then when you are together, it all matters. So that when you look into her eyes, you lose your balance, so that when she touches you, it feels like you have never been touched before. When she says your name, you think it was she who named you. When she has gone, you bury your face in the pillow to smell her hair and you lie awake at night remembering your face in her neck, her breathing and the amazing smell of her skin. Your eyes go wet because you want her so bad and miss her so much. Now that is worth the miles and the time. That matches the inferno of life. Otherwise you poison each other with your presence day after day as you drag each other through the inevitable mundane aspects of your lives. That is the slow death that I see slapped on faces everywhere I go. It’s part of the world’s sadness that’s more empty than cold, poorly lit rooms in cities of the American night."
- Henry Rollins (via valiuum)
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10 months ago
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"Someone had the dumb idea of trying to relegate us to the kitchen, which
is where all the knives are."
- Valarie Solanas (via everythingbutharleyquinn)
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11 months ago
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"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."
- Charles Bukowski (via thelaughteroftrees)
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12 months ago
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"Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it."
- Audre Lorde (via feverishconsent)
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1 year ago
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"privileged kids go to counseling, poor kids go to jail."
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—judge mathis, speaking the truth (via thatprettyoddfeminist)
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1 year ago
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"I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."
- Pablo Neruda (via warmbesideyoursmile)
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