December 2010
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Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort...
– Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847)
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Trauma: How We've Created a Nation Addicted to... →
“Post-industrial capitalism has completely destroyed the conditions required for healthy childhood development.”
“Now imagine a situation where we’re trying to figure out how to help addicts. Would we come up with a system that stresses them to the max? Who would design a system that ostracizes, marginalizes, impoverishes and ensures the disease of the addict, and...
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Miracle on 22nd Street →
“Two New York City men feel a tremendous responsibility to respond properly when they mysteriously receive hundreds of letters addressed to Santa Claus at their Chelsea apartment.”
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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy. If something intolerable...
– Florence King (as quoted in The Southern Girl’s Guide to Surviving the Newlywed Years by Annabelle Robertson)
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Hey Followers: it’s somewhat difficult for me to figure out who’s who on Tumblr… so, if we know each other in person, in passing, or perhaps via some other medium, please introduce yrself? (I’ll keep responses anon, if specified.)
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Think! You spend most of your time in your kitchen. Enjoy it! If a kitchen is...
– Heloise’s Housekeeping Hints (1962)
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