Hollow Planet

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors." - Rudyard Kipling

[avvallach]

Alien / Ridley Scott

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937-2005)

[kiramartinauthor]

[butchamy]

Story idea when you try to actually write it:

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Experience

Experience is that condition that allows us to recognise past failures in our current associates.

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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others

Amrbose Bierce (1842-1914)

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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.

Henry Lewis Mencken (1880-1956)

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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

[lesbianregreat]

1914 Russian lesbian poet… a way with words and a way with women

“How often her mysterious gaze has hovered over 
my soul with powerful inquisitiveness”

Sophia Parnok was a Russian lesbian poet born in 1885. She was the only openly lesbian voice in Russian poetry during her time; and many feel her unique contribution to modern Russian lyricism has been overlooked.

At 29 years old, she fell in love with 20 year old poet Marina Tsvetaeva during which time Parnok published her first book of verse, “Poems.”

Parnok then became lovers with actress Erarskaya Lyudmila, and the two moved from Moscow to the Crimean town of Sudak.

During her lifetime, Sophia Parnok published five volumes of poetry and the libretto to the opera Almast. By 1928, the Soviets had decided her poetry was unlawful, and she was unable to publish after that.

Five years earlier, Parnok at age 38 met her long term partner Olga Tsuberbiller and the two of them lived together nearly a decade until Parnok’s death.

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an unfamiliar cat: (approaches me)

me, internally: this cat senses my inner worth

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Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)

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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Henry Lewis Mencken (1880-1956)

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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Henry Lewis Mencken (1880-1956)

[thelovejournals]

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving (via thelovejournals)