I refuse to accept that the people who have never wasted a second of their lives in the conventional sense, the people who climb mountains and run for high office and find cures for diseases, have succeeded in engaging fully with life. They’re the ones with the damaged relationships and the piles of unread novels, the people who don’t know what... - http://getagimmick.com/post...
peterwknox:
Critterati entries : The New Yorker
Waiting for Dogot
this combines two of my favorite things: dogs, and theater. - http://getagimmick.com/post...
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - http://getagimmick.com/post...
recuerdo: PRIOR: The fountain’s not flowing now, they turn it off in the winter, ice in the pipes. But in the summer it’s a sight to see. I want to be around to see it. I plan to be. I hope to be. This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not... - http://getagimmick.com/post...
megsnotplural:
symbiosis:
(via thewaythingsgo)
New England autumn, breaking my heart.
Me too, Central New York autumn and New England autumn are two different animals. - http://getagimmick.com/post...
notthatkindagay: rustyjtrump: Dogs Home Alone (via HelenGoens) These people were always finding water all over their pool deck and furniture, every time they came home, after being away for a few hours. They thought the neighborhood kids were watching for them to leave, and using the pool. However, they could never catch them doing it. So they set... - http://getagimmick.com/post...
Do you know that talking, as a means resolving conflict, actually goes against every biological instinct we have? We feel threatened, so we fight. Or if we don’t have the stomach for that, we run. - http://getagimmick.com/post...
She knows that loneliness can kill people - in different ways can actually make you die. Olive’s private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as “big bursts” and “little bursts.” Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need... - http://getagimmick.com/post...
It’s the place to go if you’re looking to get fucked by a 40-year-old woman. I guarantee it. They’re away from their husbands, their daughters are all safely screaming at Rob Pattinson. Trust me, all those 40-year-old moms will be in the bathrooms, fucking the 20-year-old guys working the con. I think Twilight moms are dirty. Think about it, man.... - http://getagimmick.com/post...
The leaves are changing and so can you. NEW SCHOOL. NEW JOB. NEW LOVE. NEW LIFE. autumn calls for reinvention, a change of scenery. don’t hold back. cut your hair, tell her you love her, tell him you’re leaving, start a band, leave your job, switch your major, do what makes you feel good. the choices you make now will pave the way for the rest of... - http://getagimmick.com/post...
I came in the Dawson’s Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven’t looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25. - http://getagimmick.com/post...
megsnotplural: lavenderlines: bohemea:suicideblonde: “For Frodo” aragorn might be the love of my life Aragorn or Larry David. “But maybe he didn’t mean it as a date thing. Maybe he just needed to get out of the house, and since I’m currently one of the women sitting home, thinking, “If I could only find a man like Aragorn,” he picked me.” -... - http://getagimmick.com/post...
Just as a novelist creates a narrative, a person creates a sense of being. The self is simply our work of art, a fiction created by the brain in order to makes sense of its own destiny. In a world made of fragments, the self is our sole “theme, recurring, half remembered, half foreseen.” If it didn’t exist, then nothing would exist. We would be a... - http://getagimmick.com/post...