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heavener — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:12:49 +0000

Rumpus: Is this interview being monitored right now? Potter: Maybe. The more important question: Is that going to stop us? - Activist Will Potter interviewed at The Rumpus.

heavener — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:21:18 +0000

“(C)ourage is vital piece of any well-lived life.” – Sugar on body image at The Rumpus.

heavener — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:11:25 +0000

“I admire the force of your stream.” – Wells Tower at NYR Blog

heavener — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:14:35 +0000

The spot was haloed red around the edges and charred in the center, about the size of a stubbed-out cigarette because it in fact was the designated location where her man could stub out his cigarette while they were making dog-style sex, and thinking of it from kind of a convenience aspect it was a sweet thing for her to allow and because it was so scarred up she couldn’t feel a new smoke stubbed out, and in that way it was the perfect display of love. – Amelia Gray at Toad

heavener — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:11:00 +0000

One day somewhere in the world something terrible will happen and for once we will heed the ruins. We will begin collectively to take responsibility for the world we’re creating. Call me foolishly utopian, but I sincerely believe this will happen. I do. I just wonder how many millions of people will perish before it does. – Junot Díaz at Boston Review

heavener — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:18:31 +0000

Forgiveness of self is central to the project of being an ally because, simply put, you won’t be much good to other folks until you can get over your own shit. Until you stop feeling like the piece of shit the world revolves around. – Margaret Price at TheRedTree.

heavener — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:00:59 +0000

There’s only so much you can devote in any one day to reading. But you must read. That’s why I feel I must read the newspapers first. Why? Because I really want to know what is going on. – Gay Talese on reading material at The Atlantic.

heavener — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:28:49 +0000

Of such corporal instances as these he bore no tidings, and though it was the custom in that part of the world to stop with any traveler and exchange the news, he seemed to travel with no news at all, as if the doings of the world were too slanderous for him to truck with, or perhaps, too trivial. – from Blood Meridian by Cormac MaCarthy

heavener — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:09:07 +0000

Like Romeo and Juliet, we may make our lives a lot more difficult, and needlessly so, but we’re like that, we lunatics, lovers, poets, and runners, we woeful yet merry band of humans. – Letitia L. Moffitt on creating drama at HTMLG

heavener — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:22:14 +0000

“(N)othing has done more to make us dumber or meaner than the anonymity of the Internet.” – Aaron Sorkin in profile at W.