May 2013
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What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to...
– Richard Powers (via theparisreview)
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the cinnamon peeler's wife: "The Average Fourth... →
commovente:
While in graduate school at the University of Houston, I supplemented my income by working as a writer in residence for Writers in the Schools (WITS). I was with WITS for three years, during which I visited third, fourth, and fifth grade classrooms, and worked with groups of students visiting the…
April 2013
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Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality,...
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (via quotablebookquotes)
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic...
– Rollo May, The Courage to Create (via adsertoris)
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If media covered America the way we cover foreign...
jahanzebjz:
Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.
Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Mobile, the capitol, over a discussion that may...
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I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a...
– Chaim Potok, The Chosen (via quotablebookquotes)
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nodus tollens
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters that you had originally skimmed through to get to...
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
– Harold Pinter (via theparisreview)
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Speak if you have words stronger than silence, or keep your silence.
– Euripides (via hiperbole)
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kateoplis: “Music moves people of all cultures, in... →
kateoplis:
“Music moves people of all cultures, in a way that doesn’t seem to happen with other animals. Nobody really understands why listening to music — which, unlike sex or food, has no intrinsic value — can trigger such profoundly rewarding experiences. Salimpoor and other neuroscientists are trying…
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I’ve been in a bad mood since like 2007
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Eden or Geometry? by Ganga Dhakal I wish the degrees of dreams were equal to the angle of my heart. In this world of geometry, I wanted to ignore the formula, and Directions For the class period is too short to be friends with rules. I don’t want to draw a straight line, I love circles so much. The question is about the rectangle, I think thousand times what to answer, Even whether to answer...
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brobecks:
“tired” isn’t even a temporary state for me anymore it’s just an inherent part of my personality at this point
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Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four...
– Markus Zusak (via likeafieldmouse)
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my definition of productivity is finally watching the movie that i hadn’t gotten around to watching.
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There is an indescribable feeling that comes from being desperately in love with...
– Nina LaCour, Hold Still (via mirroir)
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the...
– Søren Kierkegaard (via mirroir)
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There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it...
– Dan Harmon (via thetallestmanonearthh)
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javeliner:
think about the concept of a library. that’s one thing that humanity didn’t fuck up. we did a good thing when we made libraries
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It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t even about good and evil and...
– Mark Haddon from The Red House (via ingeniosa)
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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become...
– Oscar Wilde, Nothing… Except My Genius (via distantheartbeats)
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy...
– Oscar Wilde (via justbesplendid) (via livingtoseayou) (via booklover)
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Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
– Gore Vidal (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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