December 2011
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“Why don’t you throw something on and we’ll go to the movies?”
“What would you like to see?”
“You silent for two hours”
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“You should be more tolerant”
“No, I will never be tolerant of men with soul patches”
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He stretched an arm towards the door, adding with infinite compassion: ‘Go...
– extract from One Day, by David Nicholls
Pulitzer for this man, please!
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For a minute there, I lost myself
I had a vision of a fire. A cigarette, smoke escaping, catching quickly to the old faded blue carpet. It would be all my fault. Letters from my mother, pictures of my father. There is no good place to store anything. I am forgetful, too lenient. Later, I always say, later.
The train pulls away, and there’s nothing more I can do but let it all burn down. It’s already gone. The winter...
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“He looks like a gay David Bowie.”
“What?”
“I mean, if David Bowie could be more gay without actually being gay”
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“He’s in that movie Face/Off”
“Face/Off?”
“Yeah, you know, with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage?”
“That says it all really. No, I don’t know it.”
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With our hoods up we sang to each other in the cold, huddled, then inside dancing, warm, your face smiling at mine screaming love. My hand led yours through the crowd.
As I was leaving a boy stared me down, and it reminded me of you. I walked over and he said, smiling, “I just like looking at your face.” It was too close, too much. I insulted him without thinking, without meaning to,...
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It's really fucking windy here today →
“I mean, I’m not the greatest lover of children.”
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Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to...
– excerpt from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
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Today:
Without knowing anything about it, I read Endgame. For at least 3 or 4 pages, I thought the characters might be dogs.
“It’s gonna snow all week! But look how nice it is today.”
“Yeah. So do you wanna shut the curtains and watch something?”
“Yeah ok.”
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Brad Wins →
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This year
I’m just going to give everyone a copy of Alan Partridge’s autobiography. Doesn’t matter who.