June 4, 2012
True story: His Name is Robert Downey Jr.

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by Dana Reinhardt

I’m willing to go out on a limb here and guess that most stories of kindness do not begin with drug addicted celebrity bad boys.

Mine does.

His name is Robert Downey Jr.

You’ve probably heard of him. You may or may not be a fan, but I am, and I was in the early 90’s when this story takes place.

It was at a garden party for the ACLU of Southern California. My stepmother was the executive director, which is why I was in attendance without having to pay the $150 fee. It’s not that I don’t support the ACLU, it’s that I was barely twenty and had no money to speak of.

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June 3, 2012
"Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I’ll laugh. And then I’ll know what life is."

— Sylvia Plath (via larmoyante)

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June 3, 2012
"Housewives don’t need chemistry."

— My mom trying to ease my anxieties (via selfinspiration)

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June 3, 2012
"You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can’t see the wound doesn’t mean it isn’t hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals."

— Jodi Picoult

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June 3, 2012
"A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended."

—  Ian McEwan

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June 3, 2012
"It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you."

—

Ian McEwan, Atonement

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June 3, 2012
jawnhatson: » 1/50 photos of Ben Whishaw

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June 3, 2012
Nancy Mitford

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June 3, 2012
"It’s no good pretending that winning isn’t marvellous, I speak as a life-long loser."

— Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley, in a letter to her sister Deborah Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (via acockeyedoptimist)

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