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Burma’s long-time democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has officially been sworn in as a member of parliament, taking public office for the first time after spending much of the past two decades under house arrest.

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“Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series, which has been published so brilliantly by Bloomsbury and my other publishers around the world. The freedom to explore new territory is a gift that Harry’s success has brought me, and with that new territory it seemed a logical progression to have a new publisher. I am delighted to have a second publishing home in Little, Brown, and a publishing team that will be a great partner in this new phase of my writing life.” [x]

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THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE

created by: author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg

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In school you don’t get parole, good behaviour only gets you a longer sentence.

The History Boys (Alan Bennet)

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Andrew Scott reads: There where the waves shatter by Pablo Neruda

There where the waves shatter on the restless rocks the clear light bursts and enacts its rose, and the sea-circle shrinks to a cluster of buds, to one drop of blue salt, falling. O bright magnolia bursting in the foam, magnetic transient whose death blooms and vanishes - being, nothingness - forever: broken salt, dazzling lurch of the sea. You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness.

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I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Oscar Wilde (via loveyourchaos)

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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”

Alan Watt (via neil-gaiman)

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Whoever you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further, I am not what you supposed, but far different. Who is he that would become my follower? Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections? The way is suspicious—the result uncertain, perhaps destructive; You would have to give up all else—I alone would expect to be your God, sole and exclusive, Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting, The whole past theory of your life, and all conformity to the lives around you, would have to be abandon’d; Therefore release me now, before troubling yourself any further— Let go your hand from my shoulders, Put me down, and depart on your way.

The first three stanzas of Walt Whitman’s Whoever You Are Holding Me Now In Hand (via toccareilcielo)

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"Romantic interest is imaginary. Stuck in the pretend-zone." Accurate.

I saw Youtube didn’t have any videos up today?? So I thought I’d help them out and made this.

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Yup. Absolutely. Except, I would be a bit scared of interacting with a man who has a reputation of destroying people with his tongue. Actually, I'm scared of interacting with people period, so ... Still! It would be the best dinner party of all time! (And not just because we're having dinner with a person previously known to be well dead.)

By the way, loved the phrase "queered straight culture". Such a great way to put it!

Oscar Wilde is one of my ‘Living or Dead Dinner Party’ guests. He lived in an England where homosexuality was a crime, where straight society labeled as criminals those who erred from the norm, and locked them out of sight.

Wilde refused to comply. He queered straight culture, forcing people...

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if you’ve never watched the vlogbrothers

treat yourself to this one

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Amazing! I do love the way Brian Cox lectures. He does it in a non-patronising yet extremely clear way.