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“I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don’t want to do anything else. I don’t go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It’s a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I’m too interested in many other things.

Susan Sontag (via theparisreview)

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Mädchen Amick

promotional photos for Twin Peaks, December 1, 1989

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(2/2) “I was an only child, but I had eleven children. I built a whole family. Every Friday I’d cook for them at my house. I’d spend the whole day in my kitchen, and all the grandchildren would come over, and the house would be filled with noise. The word ‘family’ is a painful word for me now. The war scattered my children all over the world. They are in Syria, Lebanon, Germany, and Jordan. I love all my children, but this one here is my soul. He’s always taken care of me. He’s even raised his children to take care of me. His daughters are always asking if I need anything– just like their father. Tomorrow he’s leaving for a place called Memphis, Tennessee. I don’t know what I will do without him. I hope they will let me come to Memphis too. Can you tell us anything about Memphis? Are there nice people there? I heard that it is a city of music. I love music.” (Amman, Jordan)

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Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq is an adaptation of Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata, which was first performed in 411 BCE. Lysistrata—whose name means “army disbander”—convinces the women of Greece to withhold sex to get their men to stop fighting the Peloponnesian War. Lee’s version is set in the present on the South Side of Chicago.  Film critic David Edelstein has a review.

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And every day the world will drag you by the hand yelling, “This is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day it’s up to you to yank your hand back and say, “No. This is what’s important.

Iain Thomas  (via thatkindofwoman)

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Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands | Norway (by davidgrigoryan 87)

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Throughout his career, McQueen would rail angrily against women hating accusations, eventually telling a personal story that he hoped would silence his critics. As an eight year old boy, he explained, he had witnessed a terrifying act of domestic violence, directed at one of his older sisters by her husband. “I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sisters neck” he described. “I was just standing there with her two children beside me… I’ve seen a woman get nearly beaten to death by her husband. I know what misogyny is. Everything I’ve done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naive… I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.”

Chloe Fox on Alexander McQueen, Vogue On (via biasedcuts)

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Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990-1990

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Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

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The weight of a body beside you, no matter how you feel about the person inside of that body, and the sound of its inhalations and exhalations, late into the night: these become a form of ceasefire, at least until morning.

Bachelors, Eleanor Jane (in Adult Magazine)

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You ask me what it is that I want of you. I cannot tell you that, but I can tell you that what I want of myself is to love you , to love you a thousand times more, even, than I do!

Gustave Flaubert, from a letter to Louise Colet (via mishproductions)