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How to be a girl

How to be a girl

Untitled, c1975 (Marcia Hare in Memphis Tennessee) by William Eggleston CREDIT: ©EGGLESTON ARTISTIC TRUST

  Stuff

I say to make me

Feel better

Fluff

I tell others to make them

Feel happier

Bluff

_ Managed to live

yet another day to grieve

  Be confident

Be positive

Be optimist

Be smarter

_ People like sunny bubbly happy girls

with empty cardboard boxes in their pretty heads.

  Wear a brand

Own…

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Leonard Cohen at home, Los Angeles, September, 2016

Photograph by Graeme Mitchell for The New Yorker

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Leonard Cohen’s “Midnight Run For Cheetos At The Local 7/11″

Photo by Bob Faggen. Photo & caption contributed by Leonard Cohen

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Backstage at The Newport Folk Festival, 1967 with Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins and Joan Baez. Photography by David Gahr.

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So when I met Leonard, I said to him, “I need to read some books,” and he said, “What kind of books?” “Well, I hear people talking about books, and I got a kind of a chip out of my marriage that I’m stupid because everybody’s read a lot of books that I haven’t read. Give me a reading list.” He said, “Well, you’re writing quite well for someone who hasn’t read anything. Maybe you shouldn’t read anything.” He gave me his reading list, wonderful books: Camus, The Stranger; the I Ching, which I’ve used all my life; Magister Ludi; Siddhartha. A wonderful reading list.

Joni Mitchell (via bobdylan-n-jonimitchell)

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“This picture of us hugging at the Newport Folk Festival … Leonard did “Suzanne.” I’d met him and I went, ‘I love that song. What a great song.’ Really. “Suzanne” was one of the greatest songs I ever heard. So I was proud to meet an artist. He made me feel humble, because I looked at that song and I went, ‘Woah. All my songs seem so naive by comparison.’ It raised the standard of what I wanted to write.”

- Joni Mitchell, from “Joni Mitchell In Her Own Words,” by Malka Marom.

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Leonard Cohen on creativity, his influences, and why he loves hearing people cover his songs. 

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The disadvantages of a (very) bovaristic education

The disadvantages of a (very) bovaristic education

I blame it on my mum, seriously. She used to read to me poetry by Prévert, Jimenez, Pablo Neruda. She handed me her first copy of Love Story, worn with dog-ears, re-readings and tears.   I was young and naïve. I should have known better, but I didn’t. So, no surprises here: I developed that dangerous reading condition also known as bovarism (many thanks, good old Flaubert), textually…

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not even a real person yet

Embarrassingly _I am not even a real person yet

artwork by Yaykoi Kusamafrom for Alice in Wonderland What will become of me? A drop in the ocean A tear in the rain A grain of salt in the desert A wee fish in a sea of sharks   defenceless invisible _I barely even exist   Embarrassingly _I am not even a real person yet

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found you

A tale of something found, only to be lost. #poetrypusher

A tale of something found, only to be lost. found you in the middle of my days where there was nothing to be found anymore_   touched you in the middle of my thoughts _ever so far ever so close   felt you in the middle of my doubts amongst agony and fears the ecstasy of a kind of hope a somniloquy   lost you like all things lost _hybris, distraction, timing, lost trains, alignments of planets…

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Sorry I'm a (Janeite) lady #janeite #janeausten #literarytattoo #englishliterature #litnerd #litblog

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A sneak peak into Dumbledore's office #potteriana #literarytourism #litblog #litnerd #jkrowling #hogwarts #harrypotter #harrypotteriana #harrypotterstudios #themakingofharrypotter #dumbledore

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You wouldn't want to miss the Hogwarts express #waitingformylettertohogwarts #harrypotter #harrypotteriana #harrypotterstudios #jkrowling #litnerd #litblog #literarytourism

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The Knight Bus #harrypotter #harrypotteriana #ophelinhagoestohogwarts #harrypotterstudios #hogwarts #jkrowling #litnerd #litblog #literarytourism

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Looks like Dolores Umbridge's den allright... #harrypotter #harrypotteriana #hogwarts #harrypotterstudios #jkrowling #ophelinhagoestohogwarts

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Diagon Alley #harrypotter #hogwarts #diagonalley #jkrowling #harrypotteriana #harrypotterstudios #ophelinhagoestohogwarts #litnerd #litblog #literarytourism