May 2013
Get up, brush off, get out.
I don’t like this feeling.
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The Complete (Online) Essays
The ultimate David Foster Wallace nonfiction collection, including links to every essay available online.
I came in my pants. Thrice.
“How many times have I not felt unfortunate for being disabled from which I...”
– Frida Kahlo, from an unsent letter to Diego Rivera
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The Asylum is my Refuge
I have a constant need to feel. That is what drives me. Not just surface level contact, but strong sensations, emotions, things potent enough to light my soul on fire. That is why I indulge in such strange habits; take pleasure in music that is frantic, heavy, pleading, screaming; place myself in situations that get my heart pumping and my mind ticking and my adrenaline coursing. I need to feel....
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via larmoyante)
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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
– David Foster Wallace (via thebostonhomo)
“That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do. Then that...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via crematedadolescent)
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Sunday mornings spent watching North Korean missiles shoot into blue skies.
marlin-not-so-funny-fish asked: have you seen my son?
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Smoke over Sound
My younger brother came home from work early last night. He looked like a mess: shaken, red-faced, anxiously pacing the kitchen floor. My old boss Big Frankie put him through the ringer, but my brother’s not the type of person to take the abuse quietly, like I used to. My brother told the pizza guy he felt sick, and walked right out the door.
My parents were clearly upset, but too tired to argue....
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“but we joke and laugh
otherwise we would start
screaming.”
– Charles Bukowski (via frankie-wolf)
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clumsy-words:
So it turns out Bridget is an ENFP/INFP
Aka pretty much all of my friends are ENFPs or INFPs
I can totally see Bridget being an ENFP
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“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow...”
– Charles Bukowski, “The Crunch” (via wastedtimewithyou)
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath (via arabarabarab)
“Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later — the world has time....”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via deathbystiricide)
“And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you.”
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important...
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Symptoms of this disorder, as defined by the DSM-IV-TR, include:
Takes advantage of others to reach own goals
Expects to be recognized as superior and special, without superior accomplishments
Expects constant attention, admiration and positive reinforcement from others
Envies others and believes others envy him/her
Is preoccupied with thoughts and fantasies of great success, enormous...
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