May 2012
45 posts
“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and...”
– Tom Wolfe (via amandaonwriting)
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“I love words…they’re my work, they’re my play, they’re my passion. Words are all...”
– George Carlin, in his 40-year-old routine, “7 Dirty Words,” off 1972’s Class Clown (via austinkleon)
“I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me.”
– S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders (via itsfromabook)
“I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age,...”
– Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)
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Fleetwood Mac — Dreams...
“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
– Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann (via wrists)
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac, Dharma Burns (via girlwithoutwings)
One hundred and fifty-two insights into my soul!
Joe Fox: So what's his handle?
Kathleen Kelly: Uh...
Joe Fox: I'm not going to write him. Is that what you're worried about? You think I'm going to e-mail him?
Kathleen Kelly: All right, NY152.
Joe Fox: N-Y-one-five-two. One hundred and fifty-two. He's a hundred and fifty-two years old. He's had one hundred and fifty-two moles removed, so now he's got one hundred fifty-two pock marks on his... on his face...
Kathleen Kelly: The number of people who think he looks like Clark Gable.
Joe Fox: One hundred and fifty-two people who think he looks like a Clark *Bar*.
Kathleen Kelly: Why did I even tell you about this?
Joe Fox: A hundred and fifty-two stitches from his nose job. The number of his souvenir shot glasses that he's collected in his travels.
Kathleen Kelly: No! The number... the numb... his address? No! No, he would never do anything that prosaic.
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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (via fate-my-friend)
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“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so...”
– Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via fissionaccomplished)
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“Nothing happens until something moves.”
– Albert Einstein (via girlwithoutwings)
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“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty:...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (via litverve)
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“The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes...”
– Aldous Huxley (via ghostwood)
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“I would never serve as the source of his inspiration, though in attempting to...”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids
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Babylon | David Gray (via the-oncoming-ginger)
“Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn’t live through, I chose to weed out the...”
– David Sedaris, When You are Engulfed in Flames
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“I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What...”
– Anna Kamienska, from A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
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“I bought stacks of books, but I didn’t read them. I taped sheets of paper to the...”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids (via riayn)
April 2012
56 posts
“The thought process can never be complete without articulation.”
– Stephen King (via amandaonwriting)
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person,...”
– Ray Bradbury (via roscoe-)
