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    05 November 2009
    “A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.”
    Robert Doisneau

    photography

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    04 November 2009
    “A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel

    depression

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    03 November 2009
    “She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hands all the time, as if they were afraid they’d bore you or something. Jane was different. We’d get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we won’t quite till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”
    J.D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

    book love crush

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    02 November 2009
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh!’ he whispered. ‘Yes, Piglet?’ ‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

    friendship

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    01 November 2009
    “The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.”
    Ben Okri

    imperfection human condition

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    31 October 2009
    “

    Well I’ve been lost and I need direction /
    I could use a little love protection /
    What you say honey come to my defense /

    I stand up for you if it’s what you need /
    And I can take a punch, I don’t mind to bleed /
    As long as afterwards you feel bad for me /

    ”
    Griffin House, The Guy That Says Goodbye Is Out of His Mind

    lyrics love crush

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    30 October 2009
    “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
    Frank Sinatra

    toast birthday

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    30 October 2009
    “I don’t want to survive, I want to live!”
    Jeff Garlin, WALL-E

    movie carpe diem

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    29 October 2009
    “Well, I should probably just start first, that you, […] have just wrecked me. In the best possible way, you have absolutely wrecked me. Because you see, I fell in love with you, knowing that there was never any possibility of being with you. Knowing full well that a sizeable chunk of your heart would always be wrapped up in our friend… And that much was actually okay with me. Right up to the point that you chose me. Cause then you just turned everything on it’s head. And I got everything that I wanted, and from that day forward, I’ve just been a wreck.”
    Joshua Jackson, Dawson’s Creek

    tv love

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    28 October 2009
    “When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”
    Erma Bombeck

    parenting advice