 My favorite diaries:
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sixweasels profile - diary |
| comments: 'i'm either getting myself in way over my head or i'm right where i need to be.' |
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smoog profile - diary |
| comments: 'i'm a homewrecker in dreamland.' |
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chubbychic profile - diary |
| comments: 'i've come to believe that my grocery store has begun outsourcing work to the local mental facility.' |
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squirrelx profile - diary |
| comments: 'he finally deigned to glance in my direction; just a quick, disinterested cut of his eyes.' |
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jennyj profile - diary |
| comments: 'am i mistaken in my idea of germans as being international-minded anglophiles and generally broad-minded?' |
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sunnflower profile - diary |
| comments: 'she said - "just go to bed, mom" ... calmly and with the ultimate authority of youth.' |
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mcearstix profile - diary |
| comments: 'their energy is so indefatigable that i become exhausted just watching them eat cereal.' |
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pollymagoo profile - diary |
| comments: 'at some point when they stop being aware that your eyes are on them, boys’ in-company walks transform into their alone-walks. even if i know they are perfectly happy, it makes me want to cry.' |
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peachfront profile - diary |
| comments: 'he held his wings open for balance, and at one point, one wing partly shielded her eyes ...' |
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msleslie profile - diary |
| comments: 'i was a slow and languid song.' |
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daath profile - diary |
| comments: 'all good delusions come to an end.' |
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ghanima profile - diary |
| comments: 'give me the death you own ... i will perform all your penances on the hot dirt. i will practice justice, over and over, until my body is a mass of rosary-welts, and purified in the marrow of stars.' |
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everchanging profile - diary |
| comments: ' ... if you are overweight, the logic isn't there. no one wants to be ugly and alone, right? so it must be a sign of lazy, disgusting indifference ... ' |
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fusco profile - diary |
| comments: 'it serves to remind me that i do love him, and that i can’t let myself ignore that out of some misguided sense of self-protection.' |
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rosyg profile - diary |
| comments: 'i decided to stop what if-ing: pondering the particulars of your parents' sex life is not a healthy way for a young teen girl to spend her daydreaming moments.' |
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harvestbird profile - diary |
| comments: 'just because there may be some truth in saying beggars can't be choosers doesn't mean one is always in fact a beggar.' |
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pedablogue profile - diary |
| comments: 'there is something both dignified and plaintive about students' cautious assertions that local food is rather flavourless.' |
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betholindo profile - diary |
| comments: 'and then i realize i've become that person, the pseudo-intellectual "the book's better than the movie" square at the party, who criticizes american supermarket excess.' |
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veterinarian profile - diary |
| comments: 'this other path was quite nice ... it kept going up and up, and i knew the view would be spectacular, if the hedges would just dissipate.' |
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o-twinkle-o profile - diary |
| comments: 'i’m left wandering with the leftover smirnoff in the fridge and the movies he left me and the book and the dragon and maybe the camp blankets still smell like us but that’s all.' |
My favorite music: |
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tori amos |
| comments: 'one ways now and saturdays and our kittens all wrapped in cement' |
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the beatles |
| comments: 'don't be afraid / you were made to go out and get her / the minute you let her under your skin / then you begin to make it better' |
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led zeppelin |
| comments: 'mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing / many many men can't see the open road' |
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andrew bird |
| comments: 'you're what happens when two substances collide / and by all accounts you really should've died' |
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My favorite movies: |
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breakfast at tiffany's |
| comments: 'you know what's wrong with you, miss whoever-you-are? you're chicken. you've got no guts. you're afraid to stick out your chin and say, 'okay, life's a fact. people do fall in love ...'' |
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harry potter |
| comments: 'it does not do to dwell on dreams, harry, and forget to live.' |
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monty python and the holy grail |
| comments: 'listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.' |
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as good as it gets |
| comments: 'i tell you buddy ... i'd be the luckiest guy alive if that did it for me.' |
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a christmas story |
| comments: 'in the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity, that as far as we know, is still hanging in space over lake michigan.' |
My favorite authors: |
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jk rowling |
| comments: 'he supposed that privet drive would be hot and leafy, its flower beds a riot of color, when he arrived there that evening. the thought gave him no pleasure at all.' |
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neil gaiman |
| comments: 'i can't recall ever having met a writer who said that their person didn't like them writing. mostly, we marry people who believe in our dreams.' |
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russell edson |
| comments: 'in the winter could you sit quietly by the window, in the evening when you could have vinegar and pretend it to be wine, because you would do well to eat doughnuts and pretend you drink wine as you sit quietly by the window.' |
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ted hughes |
| comments: 'you kept being overwhelmed by the misery of the place, like a nausea. you kept having to stand up and look round.' |
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sharon olds |
| comments: 'the center of your body will tear open, as a woman will rip the seam of her skirt so she can run.' |
