December 2011
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So it's come to this
“OK here it is. Your choice. It’s simple. Her or me. And I’m sure she’s really great. But Derek….I love you. In a really, really big ‘pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your bedroom window, unfortunate way that also makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me.”
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November 2011
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On the Concept of a Perfect Match
My heart is a huge troll. You’d think that it’d become more wary with age, but the older I get, the easier it is to fall in love with people. In high school, it took me at least a semester before I could acknowledge that I’d developed feelings for somebody. In college, it took me about a month and a half to form an attachment to my first love. A year later, I began feeling things for a...
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A quote on soulmates
“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold on to him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break....
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Neil Gaiman on falling in love
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You...
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The Fear of Happiness
One of love’s greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us seriously happy. Hanging over every love story is the thought, as horrible as it is unknowable, of how it will end. It is as when, in full health and vigour, we try to imagine our own death, the only difference between the end of love and the end of life being that at least in the latter, we are...
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NEW BLOG FOR LONG-FORM ENTRIES
Hey guys, I understand that a lot of you prefer reading real blog entries than just seeing the stupid stuff I reblog showing up on your Readers, so I’ve consolidated all of the personal/real life/emo ones into one blog: http://denisengo.com. Pretty easy to remember, right? So please had over there and subscribe if you’d like to read more about my real life and thoughts, and less about...
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Jeffrey Eugenides on Religious Feeling
“There was no evident proselytizing motive. But the effect, for Mitchell, was to make him aware of the centrality of religion in human history and, most important, of the fact that religious feeling didn’t arise from going to church or reading the Bible but from the most private interior experiences, either of great joy or of staggering pain.”
- The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey...
October 2011
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September 2011
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“‘I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs...
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quote: the creative benefits of boredom
“Being bored turns your mind inward and encourages reflection. When you’re rushing about, there’s no time to think. When you’re bored, there’s nothing else to do but think,” he said.
“Boredom is nearly always essential to creativity. It isn’t true that creativity is mostly sparked by having a specific problem to be solved. It’s far more...
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Despite the liberties it took with history, as...
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