On and on, and on and on; my cipher keeps movin' like a rollin' stone

3rd February 2013

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At the end of the day, don’t ever let adversity define who you are. Let it _overwhelm_ who you are.
— Ray Lewis (via)

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Source: Washington Post

8th January 2013

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critical parallax, where the show’s analysis of its own shortcomings isn’t as deep as the shortcomings themselves

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Source: tigerbeatdown.com

12th December 2012

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Liz Lemonism is a door with a wall of brick behind it: you don’t get anywhere after you’ve opened it.

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Source: tigerbeatdown.com

11th December 2012

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this lights-on-roaches-scattering of critical antipathy

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Source: bmichael.org

12th November 2012

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a moment frozen in history when there was so much potential between us

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Source: nerve.com

20th September 2012

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Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web.
— Sir Frederick Pollock & Frederic William Maitland,The History of English Law(qtd. in Edward D. Re, “Appellate Opinion Writing,” lecture, 1975)

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11th June 2012

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[O]pinionated equestrian pants
On jodhpurs. Lesley M.M. Blume, Let’s Bring Back: An encyclopedia of forgotten-yet-delightful, chic, useful, curious, and otherwise commendable things from times gone by (San Francisco: Chronicle, 2010), 121.

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2nd May 2012

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Locked in the ‘sour and unwelcoming’ building, where nothing looks ‘as if it had been put down for a few minutes and was waiting to be picked up again’….
— Philip Larkin, A New World Symphony (unpublished novel), first draft, 35, quoted in Motion, op. cit., 227.

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28th October 2011

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While crying helplessly into my pillow for no good reason, I would often fantasize that maybe someday I could be one of those stoic badasses whose emotions are mostly comprised of rock music and not being afraid of things.
Adventures in Depression, Hyberbole and a Half, Oct. 27, 2011

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Source: hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com

12th September 2010

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cost-free endorsement of excellence over trash
— Frank Rich, High Art Battles Low in Rhymed Couplets, rev. of La Bete by David Hirson, Eugene O’Neill Theater, New York, New York Times, Feb. 11, 1991

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Source: The New York Times