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Drinking at breakfast is a rare pleasure with a noble heritage, and you need to...
– Troy Patterson, Drinking in the Morning After
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"What Americans are now facing is quite literally... →
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The Seven Jobs That Require the Most Education,... →
1. Reporters and Correspondents > Median income: $34,530 > Bottom-tier income: $19,970 > Number employed: 45,130 > Pct. with at least bachelor’s degree: 87% > Projected change in jobs (2008 – 2018): -8%
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Mexicue Smoked Meatball Sliders Recipe →
who is making me these?
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"The venerable Western Electric 500 telephone —... →
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Who Owns the Occupy Wall Street Narrative? →
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richard: do you enjoy these games in which the player must appear ridiculous?
violet: sir richard, life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.
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because imagination itself can be a kind of willingness - a pretense that things...
– Dodie Smith
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Other places may give you a sweet and soothing sense of level; but in New York...
– Dorothy Parker, How to Be a New Yorker
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From your hips to your feet
I want to make a long journey.
– The Insect by Pablo Neruda (from The Captain’s Verses)
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Anyway it only makes sense if you assume those premises; that all human...
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This interview with David Graeber on “What Is Debt?” is one of the most thought-provoking things published this year about the premises of finance.
seriously, read his book. one of my top 3 of the year.
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I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From...
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between...
– Lorrie Moore (via vintageanchor)
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