May 2013
20 posts
Foreign Words We Could Use in English →
nevver:
Kummerspeck (German) Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it?
Tartle (Scots) The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can’t quite remember.
Mamihlapinatapai...
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“I love lipstick. I want to write an essay about the politics of lipstick. I like...”
– Nomad Manifesto (via perfumedsecrets)
“I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at...”
– Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers
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“Tom, don’t let anybody kid you. It’s all personal, every bit of...”
– Mario Puzo, The Godfather
April 2013
15 posts
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“Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature”
– George Harrison (via hippierev0luti0n)
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“You are my science.
You make me believe in the atoms in your skin.
Now I...”
– I Wrote This For You, The Laboratory In My Heart (via word-digest)
March 2013
2 posts
“There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep...”
– Woody Allen (via nevver)
February 2013
4 posts
“You know, it is a character thing. People label themselves with all sorts of...”
– Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated 4 March 1915 (via pale-afternoon)
December 2012
10 posts
“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of...”
– Jack Kerouac (via acideyedrops) 