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By illusions GOLD
I Dontg Even Like This Town, Other

I stare at you hand resting peacefully on her hip. I hear a giggle, I see a smile, it looks so innocent but it’s oh, so vile. Powerful emotions course through my veins; love, ang...
illusions GOLD, I Dontg Even Like This Town, Other
10 articles 0 photos 150 comments

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By BraxtonLangstonChapman SILVER
Lexington, North Carolina
BraxtonLangstonChapman SILVER, Lexington, North Carolina
9 articles 0 photos 22 comments

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Dedication, Hard Work

lookingformargo SILVER, Ithaca, New York
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

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A child said, &quot;What is the grass?&quot; fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven... and now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. -Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass<br /> <br /> <br /> We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and falling. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. -Looking For Alaska<br /> <br /> Here&#039;s what&#039;s not beautiful about it: from here, you can&#039;t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It&#039;s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It&#039;s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I&#039;ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> It is so hard to leave&mdash;until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.<br /> The light falls without letup, blindingly. - A Life, Sylvia Plath

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By Aginger GOLD
Bingen, Washington
Aginger GOLD, Bingen, Washington
11 articles 0 photos 46 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Why are you so busy trying to fit in when you were born to stand out?&quot;

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By getdude56 ELITE
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
getdude56 ELITE, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
473 articles 0 photos 118 comments

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Scenery is nothing more than poetry.<br /> Love is nothing more than chemicals.<br /> &#039;Cause fairy tales are just scribbled pages filled with happy endings and little white lies.<br /> One person can make a difference, but a crowd can make a change.

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By Dmokk SILVER
Marietta, Georgia
Dmokk SILVER, Marietta, Georgia
6 articles 0 photos 19 comments
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By Yrtsbur123 SILVER
Voorhees, New Jersey
Yrtsbur123 SILVER, Voorhees, New Jersey
6 articles 0 photos 1 comment
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By Rainbeauxs SILVER
Bridgetown, Other
Rainbeauxs SILVER, Bridgetown, Other
7 articles 3 photos 42 comments
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By Gift2Rhyme BRONZE
Randallstown, Maryland
Gift2Rhyme BRONZE, Randallstown, Maryland
4 articles 0 photos 3 comments
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By Nick-M SILVER
Oak Park, Illinois
Nick-M SILVER, Oak Park, Illinois
9 articles 0 photos 49 comments

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-FLTDO-