the-simple-student
the-simple-student
Maisy Reads
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Maisy, 19. Always looking for a new book so please throw recommendations my way! Bachelor of Business student with an interest in classical literature, the Japanese language and creative writing. 
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the-simple-student · 4 years ago
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Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, ‘Essay Fragment: Preexisting Conditions’ by Torrin A. Greathouse
[ID: Mother Mary, scars on my wrists                 my spine a cracked rosary             eyelids a thin & bloody veil.]   
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the-simple-student · 4 years ago
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— Sylvia Plath
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“Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell (…)”
— Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
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the-simple-student · 4 years ago
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― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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your hand touching mine. this is how galaxies collide. ― Sanober Khan
― Carolyn Forché / Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase, 1994) / John Berger / Katrien de Blauwer / Hélène Cixous / Bruno Munari / Eli Craven / Sharon Olds / Hart Crane / A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, 2019) / Mary Ruefle / Robert Bly / Hans Bellmer / Richard Siken / Eli Craven / Cassandra Clare / Katrien de Blauwer / Louise Glück ―
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the-simple-student · 4 years ago
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Sappho - Translation from Anne Carson’s “If not, Winter”
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Finja Brandenburg // unknown
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― Andrei Tarkovsky
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Haruki Murakami
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the-simple-student · 4 years ago
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So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.
R. Arnold
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― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Celebrating Childhood, Adonis
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It is August. My life is going to change. I feel it.
1. raymond carver | 2. big fish (2003) | 3. emily brontë | 4. niall mcdiarmid | 5. pj harding, noah cyrus | 6. niall mcdiarmid | 7. ilya kaminsky | 8. call me by your name (2017) | 9. mary oliver | 10. norwegian wood | 11. sylvia plath
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the-simple-student · 4 years ago
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― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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photos under my "dream home" board in pinterest.
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the-simple-student · 4 years ago
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“A cub snuck into our chicken pen and fell asleep, without harming any of our chickens!“
Taken from Reddit
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