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“And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how the...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
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“We’re on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she’s holding the morphine bag over...”
– Mike DeStefano The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com Go read this, it’s wonderful. (via felixsalmon)
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“The [twenty-four-hour bike] race started at noon. After three hours, Furman was...”
–  Alec Wilkinson’s jaw-dropping New Yorker profile of jaw-dropping Guinnessport athlete Ashrita Furman.
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brooklynmutt: Christopher Hitchens destroys David Berlinski’s assertion that the Nazi party was Darwinistic or in anyway secular.  
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“He also professed to have no regrets for a lifetime of heavy smoking and...”
–  my favorite Hitchens perspective made it into the NYT Obit
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“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine (via charliebravo)
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ryan adams at carnegie hall tonight: somewhere, my 16-yr-old self is bragging to her friends over AIM that it was better than that DMB concert where she got drunk for the first time. but now that i’m in bed, playing over the songs i heard from five flights up tonight, i think i prefer this ryan adams—the recorded one. the one that plays ‘call me on your way back home’ so...
Dec 7th
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Vanessa Grigoriadis and the art of celebrity... →
I’m really into male writers from the ‘70s and I want my writing to have that kind of – you know, Nick Tosches is one of my favorite writers, and I want my writing to sound like that. I want to say offensive things. I’m not looking for the boring quote to set up the boring idea. I don’t always succeed at it, but I want things to push the limits of what is acceptable to say.  And I’m aware I...
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And now i understand why everyone hates Thought Catalog 9. Lisa Frank is not the name of a woman, it is the name of a movement, a culture, a way of living. It is a theory, a concept, a belief in something greater than yourself. It is the belief that all girls are entitled to dolphins covered with rainbows, jewel-encrusted frogs, and unicorns in acid-trip colors hugging each other. It is the...
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