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)
May 1st
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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…
May 1st
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April 2013
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“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality,...”
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
Apr 30th
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“All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (via quotablebookquotes)
Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic...”
– Rollo May, The Courage to Create (via adsertoris)
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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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...
Apr 24th
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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)
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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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...
Apr 19th
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“Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.”
– Harold Pinter (via theparisreview)
Apr 19th
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“Speak if you have words stronger than silence, or keep your silence.”
– Euripides   (via hiperbole)
Apr 16th
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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…
Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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I’ve been in a bad mood since like 2007
Apr 16th
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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...
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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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
Apr 14th
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“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four...”
– Markus Zusak (via likeafieldmouse)
Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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my definition of productivity is finally watching the movie that i hadn’t gotten around to watching.
Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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“There is an indescribable feeling that comes from being desperately in love with...”
– Nina LaCour, Hold Still  (via mirroir)
Apr 13th
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“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the...”
–  Søren Kierkegaard (via mirroir)
Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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“There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it...”
– Dan Harmon (via thetallestmanonearthh)
Apr 13th
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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
Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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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)
Apr 12th
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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)
Apr 12th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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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)
Apr 6th
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“Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.”
– Gore Vidal (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Apr 6th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 6th
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