January 2012
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The medical practice or technique of cauterization is the burning of part of a body to remove or close off a part of it in a process called cautery, which destroys some tissue,[1] in an attempt to mitigate damage, remove an undesired growth, or minimize other potential medical harmful possibilities such as infections, when antibiotics are not available. The practice was once widespread for...
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“I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to...”
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 37
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“I learned it (translation) on my own, the pay-as-you-go method. It takes a lot...”
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 35
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“If i’m angry, i direct that anger toward myself. If I have a frustrating...”
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 20
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“As I’ve gotten older, though, I’ve gradually come to the realization...”
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 19
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“I just run. I run in a void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run to...”
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p.17
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“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on...”
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 15
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“No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
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Utilize Microgoals to Leverage Productive Periods →
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11 Lentil Recipes We Love →
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“The child knelt down between her mother and the nun and they were well into the...”
– The child, “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” by Flannery O’Connor
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“It’s very hard to read Dave (Foster Wallace) and not feel almost...”
– Jonathan Franzien
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I like the way that as long as you dunk your head in what you have, keep it there and only there, no matter how much it is or isn’t, it swells to become Enough or even More Than Enough.
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Does it mean
that I’m home in this City if I don’t think twice about wearing sweats out and about? Or do I just look homeless? Work on that.
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“Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams (via julie911)
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“This is literature as sustenance. And it is commonplace in San Francisco, where...”
– San Francisco’s Bookstores and Readings Reflect a Lively Literary Scene - NYTimes.com
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“Looking up, he announced that he was reading Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer”...”
– San Francisco’s Bookstores and Readings Reflect a Lively Literary Scene - NYTimes.com
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jQuery.ScrollTo →
Maybe.
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ColorBox, A jQuery Lightbox →
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“This story is the safety net above which he swoops and dives like a brilliant...”
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, p. 220
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“This filled Ammu with an awful dread, because she was not the kind of woman who...”
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, p. 213
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“It wasn’t what lay at the end of her road that frightened Ammu as much as...”
– The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, p. 213
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
– Martin Luther King Jr (via xandurr)
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psychologically speaking: "Relationships are not... →
psychotherapy:
(via Psychology Today’s recent cover story, “Are You With the Right Mate?”)
“…Romance itself seeds the eventual belief that we have chosen the wrong partner. The early stage of a relationship, most marked by intense attraction and infatuation, is in many ways akin to cocaine intoxication,…
I think we’re good babe. :)
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