February 2012
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January 2012
22 posts
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...”
– everything is illuminated (via theartofhiding)
“I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via notnina)
“I do not wish you much happiness—it will bore you. I do not wish you trouble...”
– Dostoevsky, Demons (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
- Funny. Overcome with boredom, not quite discontent, this morning. Above quote/s mirroring that…
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“The girl looked at the bead curtain. “They’ve painted something on...”
– Excerpt from a cute short story: ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway
See: http://www.hamiltoncps.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Hills-Like-White-Elephant-Story.pdf
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“Friedrich Nietzsche defined ‘comical’ as transformation from present anxiety to...”
catacombes:
“In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.”
— Franz Kafka, Letter to Milena Jesenská
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“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed,...”
– John Steinbeck - Sweet Thursday (1954)
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“Or Oreo, or
worse. Or ordinary.
Or your choice
of category
...”
– ‘Or’, Thomas Sayers Ellis
The poem is based on the repetition of or, but as we read through it, what seemed like a formal constraint becomes a principle of transformation, a hinge that keeps flexing. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/01/12/or/
“A successful relationship requires falling in love many times…with the same...”
– Anonymous (via eurytale)
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you...”
– E.B. White (via booksandnerds)
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“Thrust your hand deep into life, and whatever you bring up in it, that is you,...”
– Nadine Gordimer
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“Lao Tzu says things like “Don’t be controlled by love. “ He says that people who...”
– Also from LeGuin interview: http://www.embracethemoon.com/perspectives/leguin.htm
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“Lao Tzu’s insistence on the inner authority of this discerning eye is an...”
– From an interview with Ursula LeGuin (follows from quote below)
From: http://www.embracethemoon.com/perspectives/leguin.htm
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“As a novelist I was told you’ve got to go out and get experience. And there’s...”
– Ursula LeGuin
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“I give all this background information because I do not think one can assess a...”
– George Orwell, Why I Write
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it;...”
– - W. Somerset Maugham (via bardsandsages)
Yes but there are some consolations…
“No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is;...”
– Bertrand Russell (via bardsandsages)
December 2011
48 posts
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in...
always found it difficult to find. Getting better. (Hopefully not too much better!)
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via the-amandashow)
“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via wordpainting)
“Sometimes you confess. You always hide what you’re confessing to. That’s one of...”
– Stephen King (via anymousse)
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“I feel like we grew up in the same house, only he went out the back door and I...”
– Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via chapmanmogridge)
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“Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of...”
– Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer
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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he...”
– Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (via bookofcowardice)
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“Every person I interact with is part of the person I am becoming.”
– Patricia Moreno (via lucifelle)
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Amazing short story - ‘The End of the Party’ by Graham Greene.
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/EndParty.html