 My favorite diaries:
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endless-sea profile - diary |
| comments: I've learnt that forgiveness is not forgetting. That long after everything's gone, in the face of things - like slow repression - the hurt remains like someone burning you with their touch. |
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ecappaccino profile - diary |
| comments: We are not errors in the landscape. We are this landscape. I have lived here - truly lived here...furiously and divinely. This is life. We are alive. That is enough. |
My favorite music: |
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Sergei Rachmaninov |
| comments: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, second movement |
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Leonard Cohen |
| comments: If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumours on our lips... |
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Jeff Buckley |
| comments: I am a railroad track abandoned with the sunset, forgetting I ever happened. |
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&c. |
| comments: The Cure, The Cinematic Orchestra, Radiohead, Guns N' Roses, Yo La Tengo, Zero 7, Massive Attack, Death Cab for Cutie, Dashboard Confessional, Powder Finger, Clare Bowditch |
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&c. |
| comments: Iron & Wine, Phoenix, Royksopp, Remy Zero, AIR, Cat Power, Damien Rice, Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Athlete, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, The Strokes, Turin Brakes, Muse |
My favorite movies: |
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| comments: How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd. |
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Moulin Rouge |
| comments: Christian, you may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being. |
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Romeo + Juliet |
| comments: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. |
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The Virgin Suicides |
| comments: ... and then the five glittering daughters in their homemade dresses, all lace and ruffle, bursting with their fructifying flesh. |
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Closer |
| comments: Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off -- but it's better if she does. |
My favorite authors: |
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Poets |
| comments: Jack Gilbert, Richard Siken, Pablo Neruda, Yehuda Amichai, Rilke, Frank O'Hara, Mark Doty, Charles Bukowski |
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Poets |
| comments: Larry Levis, Simon Armitage, Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, Jeffrey McDaniel, Dorianne Laux, Margaret Atwood, Marie Howe |
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John Steinbeck |
| comments: But the Hebrew word, the word timshel -- 'Thou mayest' -- that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. |
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Ayn Rand |
| comments: I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. |
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Virgil |
| comments: So humid Iris through bright heaven flew / On saffron-yellow wings, and in her train / A thousand hues shimmered before the sun. |
