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When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via bookmania)(via catecophany)
Posted on January 7, 2012 via Book Mania! with 698 notes
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…
The Great Gatsby (via wilwheaton)Posted on December 7, 2011 via WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR with 303 notes
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away
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Rory Williams. Perfect human being.
Accurate. I’m in love with him. Together we could text and make scones. And text about scones. And scone about texts?
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Leaving for Manchester today! I’ll be there until September 1, when I arrive in Amsterdam! And there the adventure shall begin…
Love you all!
Rachel
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Way to go, Utrecht!! 48th best research university in the world!
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hanging up on you by [SIRIN.THADA] on Flickr.
Pretty and fucking real. I cannot remember the last time I hung up on anyone, probably because it’s supremely unsatisfying on a cell phone. Would it be weird to have a real phone and land line for the sole purpose of loaded conversations? I guess it would also be decorative.
The only thing I love more than Catie’s reblogs are Catie’s commentary. So true!
Posted on August 14, 2011 via Falling in C8H11NO2 with 732 notes
Source: moleculess
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RIP NANCY WAKE (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011)
Ms Wake, who has died in London just before her 99th birthday, was a New Zealander brought up in Australia. She became a nurse, a journalist who interviewed Adolf Hitler, a wealthy French socialite, a British agent and a French resistance leader. She led 7,000 guerrilla fighters in battles against the Nazis in the northern Auvergne, just before the D-Day landings in 1944. On one occasion, she strangled an SS sentry with her bare hands. On another, she cycled 500 miles to replace lost codes. In June 1944, she led her fighters in an attack on the Gestapo headquarters at Montlucon in central France.
Work began earlier this month on a feature film about Nancy Wake’s life. Ms Wake, one of the models for Sebastian Faulks’ fictional heroine, Charlotte Gray, had mixed feelings about previous cinematic efforts to portray her wartime exploits, including a TV mini-series made in 1987.
“It was well-acted but in parts it was extremely stupid,” she said. “At one stage they had me cooking eggs and bacon to feed the men. For goodness’ sake, did the Allies parachute me into France to fry eggs and bacon for the men? There wasn’t an egg to be had for love nor money. Even if there had been why would I be frying it? I had men to do that sort of thing.”
Ms Wake was also furious the TV series suggested she had had a love affair with one of her fellow fighters. She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.
Even before she escaped to Britain, through Spain, in 1943 to train as a guerrilla leader, Nancy had been top of the Gestapo’s French “wanted” list. With her husband, she ran a resistance network which helped to smuggle Jews and allied airmen out of the country.
Nancy recalled later in life that her parachute had snagged in a tree. The French resistance fighter who freed her said he wished all trees bore “such beautiful fruit”. Nancy retorted: “Don’t give me that French shit.”
<3 what a bad ass <3
>She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.
>She was too busy killing Nazis
>too busy killing Nazis
fuck yes lady anzacs
This little old lady strangled a man to death with her bare hands.
And was too busy killing Nazis for romance.
This is the BAMFest BAMF who ever BAMFed, ladies and gentlemen.
(via jessfink)
Posted on August 11, 2011 via COMPARING BELLYACHES with 31,615 notes
Source: independent.co.uk
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If I ever complain about my travels, please smack me.
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Vroom vroom
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Cyclists in Amsterdam are dressed in everything from jeans to cocktail dresses, while those in Manhattan often look like spandex cyborgs
An amazing article in the New York Times sent to me by Kirsten Miller about three of my favorite things: bicycles, bread, and Dutch! Enjoy. -

Dallas is far too hot right now.
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Posted on August 1, 2011 via ThisCrusade. with 2,195 notes
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Last year’s canal ride.
Gijs, Frank, Boat Lady, Me
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hanging up on you by [SIRIN.THADA] on Flickr.
Pretty and fucking real. I cannot remember the last time I hung up on anyone, probably because it’s supremely unsatisfying on a cell phone. Would it be weird to have a real phone and land line for the sole purpose of loaded conversations? I guess it would also be decorative.
The only thing I love more than Catie’s reblogs are Catie’s commentary. So true!](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpwj44O6r41qctjcvo1_500.jpg)


