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The Sopranos (1999‑2007)
Ilya Kaminsky, "Letters", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Jason Schneiderman, from "Staircase", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via letsmeetinourdreams)
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
Charles Bukowski
March 29, 1966 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977
via schulzmuseum
//Casablanca
Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
Thief (1981), dir. Michael Mann
NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter.
how do you sustain morale during a long project Lutheran guilt how do you sustain morale during a long project bourbon how do you sustain morale during a long project just smile how do you sustain morale during a long project pills can help
- Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
What distinguishes grace from everything else? Grace is unearned. If you’ve moved through the world in such a way as to feel you’ve earned cosmic compensation, then what you’ve earned is something more like justice, like propriety. Not grace. Propriety is correct. Justice is just. There’s an inescapable transactional quality: perform x good, receive y reward. Grace doesn’t work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.
— Kaveh Akbar, from Martyr!
“I’ve polished this anger and now it’s a knife.”
— Cathy Linh Che, from “Go Forget Your Father,” published in Poetry (via funeral)
Danez Smith, “little prayer”
I feel this on a spiritual level
Schitt’s Creek 5.06 | Rock On
Eyes Wide Shut (1999), dir. Stanley Kubrick
I have never understood where the line is drawn, between sacrifice and self-slaughter.
Hilary Mantel
— Charles Bukowski, an excerpt from Love Is a Dog from Hell (via lunamonchtuna)
— tell me about hope
— It’s looking at a seed and seeing a tree
via museyumm
Martin Buxbaum
Getting ready for some shooting with AlexCollar
Can you guess what was prepared for me?
See it all on my Patreon page.
Suck on it like a good boy.
Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead
Love and Leashes (2022) dir. Hyeon-jin Park