September 2009
14 posts
“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck”
– Emma Goldman
“We do not do what we want, and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is...”
– Nicolas de Chamfort (via quotewhore)
“Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensible as...”
– Anais Nin
listening to "Fiona Apple - Shadowboxer" →
So darlin I just want to say, just in case I don’t come thru. I was on to every play- I just wanted you
“there’s not much more to lonely, than being less lonely”
The Age of Innocence
“…Why not be happier?”
“we can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
“why not-why not- why not?”
“but that kind of thing is rather-vulgar, isn’t it?”
“Are you so much afraid of being vulgar?”
“The worst of doing ones duty is that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else”
“Show up
Pay Attention
Tell the Truth
Don’t be Attached to the Outcome”
“I am a dancer. I believe we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to...”
– Martha Graham
I’ve wanted to be a dancer for as long as my mind will allow me to remember. My best friend in elementary school was an extremely talented ballerina. I used to go to her recitals and sit in the audience so proud of her grace and yet secretly saddened that it wasn’t me. I envied the pastel costumes. The petal pinks and soft lavenders, the satin ribbons and chiffon skirts.
I would...
I Invented Post Its
Saturday is my 10 year high school reunion. I hadn’t really given it much thought (even though I was on the planning committee) until the last two weeks. For the last two weeks I’ve been working out, planning my outfit and I even went to a tanning salon (gasp!) As it was graciously pointed out to me today- this reunion has brought out a particular vanity that I don’t usually...
Fiona Apple - 07 Never Is a Promise →