February 2012
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100 Best Opening Lines →
“The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door.”
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The great gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.”
The Thief of Always, Clive Barker
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they...
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“Innocence lost is not lost forever. Anything can be reclaimed. God remakes the...”
– Yasmin Mogahed
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The curve of your eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It’s that your eyes have not always been mine.
Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a...
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One Cigarette
No smoke without you, my fire. After you left, your cigarette glowed on in my ashtray and sent up a long thread of such quiet grey I smiled to wonder who would believe its signal of so much love. One cigarette in the non-smoker’s tray. As the last spire trembles up, a sudden draught blows it winding into my face. Is it smell, is it taste? You are here again, and I am drunk on your tobacco...
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“By candlelight, a page is one moment orange and the next magenta, and each word...”
lilmisznebz asked: abt your post "pathetic to see people follow the letter of the religion".. there was no way for me to comment under it. so listen,logic is good nd important. reasoning is vital. ppl need them in their lives. but religion is about belief. it's about what you choose to put your faith in. no one asked you to believe inwhat you believe in.you do it despite what you hear,what you were...
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It is pretty pathetic to see people follow the letter of the religion so closely and forget about the reasons, logic, motives behind the various bigoted and unfair ideas picked up along the way and passed off as religion vs. a cultural anomaly that got embedded in the religion.
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The End and the Beginning
After every war someone has to clean up. Things won’t straighten themselves up, after all. Someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road, so the corpse-filled wagons can pass. Someone has to get mired in scum and ashes, sofa springs, splintered glass, and bloody rags. Someone has to drag in a girder to prop up a wall, Someone has to glaze a window, rehang a door. Photogenic...
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury (via keepingtaqwa)
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“If you are sincere in your faith, someone will fall for you for the right...”
– Ziad El-Hady
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On a Cascablanca rooftop, downing Morrocan mint tea, our hair swallowed by keffiyehs, incense; cinematic as smoke with poetry and chocolates soaking tongues. I will not forget today.
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About last night →
As an adult I dislike sleeping in a house on my own. I will sit in front of the fuzzy, comforting light of the television for as long as possible, just to avoid going upstairs into the dark. If I am staying in a hotel or a new place, I often keep the bedside light switched on all night. I dream often and in Technicolor. I remember dreams, and sometimes write them down. But if the dreams are...
Darker the berry sweeter the juice. But the world favours the fair and lovely
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peony in love: none of us are writers. →
the-peony:
the sad truth is: none of us are writers.
most of us lack the depth, the substance to appear different from one another. but the reality is — we all talk about the same things, garbled together in different words.
we all are lackluster. some of us polish our thoughts with intelligible emotions…
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