February 2012
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I am performing in a magical show right now.
I have enjoyed every minute of rehearsal. I have never been a part of a production like this, and I am so grateful. I still can’t believe I was given the chance. Almost a year has passed since I was first told about this project and I still feel shocked sometimes.
I got to go to London to do research on my favorite author for the play (my first time in Europe, and my first time traveling...
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“I am in an odd state; feel a cleavage; here’s my interesting thing; and there’s...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 2 November 1929
“Right now I’ve been in this room in this city for so long I don’t see it anymore...”
– Patti Smith
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“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there,...”
– J. K. Rowling
“Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning,...”
– Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet
January 2012
26 posts
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“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“we must pass
through solitude and
difficulty, isolation and silence
to find...”
– Pablo Neruda
“What does one desire. A partner. A freewheeling moon. Or perhaps to hear again...”
– Patti Smith, Woolgathering
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“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via alexandrahamilton)
“I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the...”
– Meryl Streep
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“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to...”
– Vita Sackville-West in a letter to Virginia Woolf
Anonymous asked: If factory farms were abolished, would you eat meat again?
Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language
silhouette-:
L’esprit d’escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are...
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“How can I express the darkness?”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 30 June 1927
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“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what...”
– Meryl Streep
December 2011
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“Occupy a city that needs you! CREATE ART! And then you will be living a FREE...”
– Patti Smith at the Bowery Ballroom tonight.
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“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
sylviawrathh:
“Look here Vita—throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads—They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.”
-Virginia...
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