all the birds of the mountain

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ghostmarrow:

SO MANY CASUALTIES OF THIS TRUTH BOMB

Fo realz.

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A writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him.

George Saunders, who says the role of fiction is to “transfer energy from writer to reader” (via austinkleon)

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Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it… Do it yourself.

Gloria Anzaldua

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“When the Japanese repair broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.”
~ Barbara Bloom

“When the Japanese repair broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.”

~ Barbara Bloom

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How to Shoot a Wolf

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growhousegrow:

Have YOU voted yet??

‎Susan B Anthony pummeled and arrested for attempting to vote in 1872. She was fined $100 for registering to vote.

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Hard Headed Woman, Wanda Jackson

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Fujiyama Mama, Wanda Jackson

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// The Conjugation of the Paramecium//

by Muriel Rukeyser

This has nothing
to do with
propagating

The species
is continued
as so many are
(among the smaller creatures)
by fission

(and this species
is very small
next in order to
the amoeba, the beginning one)

The paramecium
achieves, then,
immortality
by dividing

But when
the paramecium
desires renewal
strength another joy
this is what 
the paramecium does:

The paramecium
lies down beside
another paramecium

Slowly inexplicably
the exchange
takes place
in which
some bits
of the nucleus of each
are exchanged

for some bits 
of the nucleus
of the other

This is called
the conjugation of the paramecium.

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Freaky early-twentieth century illustrations by Artuš Scheiner (1863–1938). Compliments of the very awesome Journey Around My Skull.

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