February 2012
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“Until you deal with your real personal issues, you’ll never be able to control...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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“Force and mind are opposties; morality ends where the gun begins.”
– Ann Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
– George Orwell, 1984
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“What is a man anyhow? What am I? And what are you?
All I mark as my own you...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“Loafe with me on the grass… loos the stop from your throat,
Not words,...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“They are alive and well somewhere;
The smallest sprout shows there is really no...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“Have you reckoned a thousand acres much?
Have you reckoned the earth much?...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being A Wallflower
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“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of...”
– Stephen King, The Dark Tower
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“People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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“Saturday in the house closed in mourning, the final brilliance of life that...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth
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“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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“I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“This hour I tell things in confidence,
I might not tell everybody but I will...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
Stands amused, complacent,...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“Disunity,” drawled James Taggart, “seems to be the basic cause of...”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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“I’m confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head...”
– Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping…Waiting… And though...”
– Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 2 Episode 17 Passion
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“My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues,
The real or...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“I’m sure I’m going to look in the mirror and see nothing. People are...”
– Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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“Since the world has changed so much, the same values don’t lead to the...”
– Johnathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
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“Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled from one failure or...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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“I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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“When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid...”
– John Green, Looking For Alaska
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“Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”
– Sigmund Freud
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Brother
Looking back on my childhood, I would not say with certainty that I have had a happy one. Not necessarily an unhappy one but throughout my life, I have felt like I have grown up before a child should have to and as though I was shown the harshness of life before I was really ready to fully comprehend it. If I was to recall one memory from my childhood which has shaped me, I would find it hard to...
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I’m sorry if I haven’t been posting at all the past few days or past week! I’ve just recently gone back to finish year 12 full-time this year and it’s so full on since that’s mixed with moving out of home next week and working! I’m hoping to be able to start posting more soon enough though! : )
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“The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,”...”
– Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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For those of you that live anywhere in Australia, more specifically, South Australia… You understand just how screwed up the SACE system is.
I just felt I needed to get that out.
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“All the time we are aware of millions of things around us—these changing shapes,...”
– Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”
– Sun Tzu, Art of War
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“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The...”
– Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk,...”
– George Orwell, Animal Farm
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“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair...”
– Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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“I want a woman who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t...”
– Henry Rollins, Shock and Awe DVD
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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War