July 2012
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There are people who I’ve met on the Internet who have become my IRL friends I...
– I’m hooked on a feeling. (via emilygould)
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rebellitor:
____________ just said she feared ________________. I said: “Try to be more afraid of not doing it. Everything you want is in the other direction.”
Blanks added for emphasis. If Tumblr were therapy, I’d venture this was a “breakthrough moment”. Although, if Tumblr were actually therapy, I’d fight back and tell Alex that “That’s easier said than...
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The importance of homosexuality in the development of a writer is always...
– John W. Aldrige, After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars, 1951 (via David Bergman’s The Violet Hour, 2004)
Bergman notes that this passage, even from an “enlightened” straight critic in 1951, sounds “condescending or belittling” today,...
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