January 2012
72 posts
“Freedom is…the right to write the wrong words.”
– Patti Smith (via teachingliteracy)
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“We’re all just walking each other home.”
– Ram Dass (via loveyourchaos)
“First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing...”
– John Steinbeck on falling in love, in a 1958 letter to his son, via Maria Popova (via hannahmiet)
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“It begins, it has an end,
this is what you will
come back to, this is your...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “You Begin” (via the-final-sentence)
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“You kind of grow into the role you have made for yourself.”
– Joan Didion, on the writer as a performer (via austinkleon)
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“Some people have a way with words, and other people…oh, uh, not have way.”
– Steve Martin (via wordpainting)
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the...”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (via bookmania)
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“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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America's 100 Best Beer Bars →
staceyjoy:
I’m viewing this as a to-do list.
There’s an Ashley’s that opened the year I was born and is a hangout for grad students. I have to go.
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“Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it...”
– Playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar. His debut novel, American Dervish, tells the story of Hayat Shah, a Pakistani-American boy in Milwaukee coming to terms with his religion and identity. (via nprfreshair)
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath (via thegirlandherbooks)
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Penguin Awareness Day Approaches
[...]
Nico: I own what? a penguin costume?
Ashley: I meant, own your arduous journey, but a penguin costume would work too.
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via distantheartbeats)
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“A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of...”
– Patti Smith, from Just Kids (thanks, silentiumestaureum)
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“The boy I loved didn’t know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus,...”
– David Levithan, coauthor of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Will Grayson, Will Grayson at The Why We Broke Up Project (via housingworksbookstore)
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“I had to make a few calculated collisions to stop the car once in a while.”
– Louis C.K., in a long interview that was source material for this December 2011 Rolling Stone profile (via austinkleon)