Pleasing Things:

(Melanie Payne)

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Equestrienne au Cirque Fernando, François Flameng.

Source: cc https://www.flickr.com/photos/repolco/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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Walt Disney and the Mouseketeers on the set of The Mickey Mouse Club (1957).

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Sixties Shaw starlets feasting on sticky rice dumplings. That’s Fang Ying 方盈 standing. I’m not sure about who she’s handing the glass of tea. The one with downcast face is Li Ting 李婷, who ended up killing herself not long after this picture was taken. And last but not least is the incomparable Lily Ho 何莉莉, stuffing her face with food.

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Jayne Mansfield, 1950s

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He built his wife a bedroom without windows so that the pirates of her dream would have no way to get in.

100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

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Hung out with some beautiful people today!! pleasingthings wolfpride tropicalmagicks

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heck yea we cute

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Going to miss these babes

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She reached twenty without knowing how to read or write, unable to use the silver at the table, wandering naked through the house because her nature rejected all manner of convention.

100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

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Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien, Candida Höfer, 2003

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the remote, secluded and little known rice terraces of yuanyang county in china’s yunnan province were built by the hani people along the contours of ailao mountain range five hundred years ago. during the early spring season, the terraces, once planted, are irrigated with spring water from the forest above, reflecting sunlight to create these stain glass like landscapes. photos by jialiang gao, hai thinh,  javarman, isabelle chauvel, chaluntorn preeyasombat and thierry bornier

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mostly nature

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She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simple realities.

100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

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Main Street!

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Rosone di Santa Croce. Lecce, Italy by Paolo Margari on Flickr.

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Ice sculpture by Tim Walker for Vogue US