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BenJury
“ It was the Lord who knew of the impossibility of every parent in that room faced: how to prepare the child for the day when the child would be despised and how to create in the child–by what means?–a stronger antidote to this poison than one had found for oneself. The avenues, side streets, bars, billiard halls, hospitals, police stations, and even the playgrounds of Harlem–not to mention the houses of correction, the jails, and the morgue–testified to the potency of the poison while remaining silent as to the efficacy of whatever antidote, irresistibly raising the question of whether or not such an antidote existed; raising, which was worse, the question of whether or not an antidote was desirable; perhaps poison should be fought with poison.
James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son”
“ I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via bippityboppityboo)
The initial fireball of the Russian Tsar Bomb test which with a strength equivalent to 57,000,000 tonnes of TNT was the largest man-made explosion in history.
Here’s looking at you, Khrushchev.
Thank you Rocket Project -_-.
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“ Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via reluis)
