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seriously, what the fuck is this book? i've trudged through more than half and it's INFURIATING. it's been a long time since i read something so implausible and i'm now at the part where he (SPOILER ALERT) models his goddamn house after, allegedly, hers? what the fuck. at this rate i'm sure he is the goddamn serial killer himself because who (the fuck) would act like this.

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In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control.

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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i personally think its pretty crazy that karl marx actually knew what was gonna happen to us back in 1850 like this guy comes out of nowhere at what the fuck o'clock and goes, capitalism is going to creep into every single crevice of your lives there will be nothing left and all creativity and integrity will be taken away like. he just said that    and it was correct

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Russian Doll (2019 -)

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;___; miss you every day, baby boo

Eder kvinna och den stora kärleken.

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Alexander McQueen photographed by Tim Walker 

I learned a big lesson from this picture. I haven’t properly met Lee McQueen before and I always thought he had a dark, gothic personality. When you do a portrait, you spent a lot of time researching about that person trying to understand them without knowing them. And you think how can i get to the core of who they are and capture them? We worked with Andy Hilman, the set designer, and we came up with this cross-bone bow tie, and the skull we fitted it to Lee’s head. So basically the skull was supposed to be on his head and he was going to wear the bow tie. And he turned up and I told him what we wanted to do; and you know who you don’t want to force someone into a situation that isn’t comfortable for them because then it’s an irrelevant photograph, because it turns out to be more about you than them. 

He tried the bow tie on and he said: “This is crap, I don’t like it. This is awful. I’m not wearing this”. He ripped the bow tie off, took the skull off his head, lit a cigarette and took another cigarette and stucked it in the skull’s mouth and said: “This is how I am, this is who I am.” I think when someone gives you something like that, they are meeting you and revealing something about themselves. This was the last picture taken of Lee and I know that he really liked it. There was the rebellious aspect cause he was a rebel. This picture became particularly significant because he died a week later after this picture. I think is hunts people because of that. Because of the motif of the skull and his youth and his arrogance and his performance and his rebellion. 

                                 -Tim Walker

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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches. —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Y'all makes me tired. De way you talkin' you'd think de folks in dis town didn't do nothin' in de bed 'cept praise de Lawd." —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Sarah Hampson, Joan Didion on love, loss and writing

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good morning. today i will go for the jugular

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Iranian lights his cigarette on a burning Israel flag. Seen in Tehran last night. (x)

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unfortunately i was 19 and now i'm 37.

wait ok now i'm curious how old were you when you joined tumblr and how old are you now

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i’m just like eleanor vance

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Pre-menstrual depression is always depicted as like "He He! I had a box of icecream bars and cried while watching the Titanic!" But in reality, it's more like, "I'm standing the edge of an abyss. There is nothing good inside of me, I'm filled with rage and desperation."

It's crazy that being told how to deal with that is never a part of anyone's menstrual sex education.

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