May 2011
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“I wanted to assure him I was just like everyone else, exactly like everyone...”
– Albert Camus, The Outsider
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“Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad...”
– Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
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Questions Answered.
onabeautifulday: I just found your writing tumblr but your last post was on August 14. Do you think you’ll ever go back to posting there?
Yes, absolutely. I’ve already had a few things knocking around in my head that I want to write down. I promise something will be up within the next week. :) Those who are curious it’s Discourse On Life and it’s my thoughts/essays tumblr....
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“My brain persisted—as any bodily organ would—in trying to heal what...”
– Darin Strauss, Half a Life
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“For lonely people rain is a chance to be touched.”
– Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
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“The conscious mind is not at the centre of the action in the brain; instead, it...”
– David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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“We all lose in whatever we do, because if its perfection we are after, we must...”
– Milan Kundra, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Ways to know I'm procrastinating:
In the spirit of my last post, here’s a list of things I do when I procrastinate.
Have tumblr open. Refresh and get angry that the people I follow don’t post more often. Wonder briefly whether I should follow more people. I never do.
Plan ways to be productive. Take a ludicrously long time to do so, annotate with felt pens, highlighters on coloured paper.
Watch past seasons of my...
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“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...”
– Sir Winston Churchill
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“I’ve come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage...”
– Darin Strauss, Half a Life
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I hate that neuroscience is so interesting but so...
I’d love to have an eidetic memory. My next exam is in less than nine hours and I’m freaking out. I’d love it if science exams were oral. If I could sit and have a chat with my lecturer I bet I’d ace this exam. As it stands I’m dubious about a pass.
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Anonymous asked: Is your poetry book any good?
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“At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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“I didn’t know the right answer, and didn’t have confidence in how...”
– Darin Strauss, Half a Life
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First exam in 6 hours.
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“I felt physically weak and broken down: but my worse ailment was an unutterable...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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“I love finding out what happens next.”
– Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
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“It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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“Kurt was more like an unpredictable younger brother who refused to grow up than...”
– Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
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“My father gave me the gifts of being able to pay attention to my inner narration...”
– Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
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“The curious thing about David’s fiction, though, is how recognized and...”
– Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away 