Nathan Adored

I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via perfect)

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No one’s a bigger fan of what you do than the people who hate you the most.

— Randy “Something Positive” Milholland (via bemused-geek-nz)

People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

— Neil Gaiman (via perfect)

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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

— Lin Yutang Quotes - BrainyQuote (via torley)

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

— Yousuf Karsh (via perfect)

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Every human being is a collection of selves …. We never stay one person over time. […] I am all these different people… all these different people are me.

— William Boyd’s Any Human Heart (via thinkhappyhappythoughts)

That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the “war on terror” will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three of this week’s big media controversies (Benghazi, IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined. The military historian Andrew Bacevich has spent years warning that US policy planners have adopted an explicit doctrine of “endless war”. Obama officials, despite repeatedly boasting that they have delivered permanently crippling blows to al-Qaida, are now, as clearly as the English language permits, openly declaring this to be so.

It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end itself, but it is also its own fuel: it is precisely this endless war - justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism - that is the single greatest cause of that threat.

— Glenn Greenwald (via thegildedcentury)