May 2012
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April 2012
133 posts
“A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start...”
– Salman Rushdie (via cordeliagablewrites)
“When I first read the dictionary, I thought it was a long poem about everything.”
– Steven Wright (via berfrois)
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
– Robert J. Sawyer (via ruineshumaines)
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Grim and the Necro-Girls →
One person’s meditations on death as a paradoxically positive force in life.
“I cannot say if it is our love,
or the day, that is ending.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “Departure” (via proustitute)
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“Grand-mère aimait beaucoup maman. Mais elle ne connaissait pas sa date de...”
– Ahmadou Kourouma, Allah n’est pas obligé
Typewriter Daily: 365 Days: 20 Great Things About... →
typewriterdaily:
Writers will romance you with words. Dating a writer means that you will receive love letters. Quirky notes will turn up in your pockets. Flowery descriptions of everything great about you will be shared on special occasions. See my recent post on things to write someone for Valentine’s Day…
“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting...”
– Margaret Atwood (via deer-me)
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing...”
– Samuel Johnson (via elige)
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to...”
– Winston Churchill (via politicalprof)
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury (via venebelle)
“For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”
– Ernest Hemingway once won a bet where he had to write a short story in six words. These were the six words.
How anyone could dispute this mans genius is beyond me. (via itscandidlycara)
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life…And when I sleep, let...”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via bookmania) 