December 2010
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between...
– george orwell
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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films,...
– Ray Bradbury
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had...
– Eudora Welty
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Writing is…. being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists...
– Mary Gaitskill
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If I had my life to live over, I’d try to make more mistakes next time. I would...
– Nadine Stair, age 85. (via tessamess)
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At a certain point, you have to ask yourself why certain stories are so...
– Ellen Ripley Saved My Life | The Awl
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The Evolution Store →
Since I was a wee lad, I’ve had a thing for dinosaurs. And petrified wood. And random natural history artifacts. And other slightly morbid, nerdy things. This store looks AWESOME. Christmas is just around the corner, friends…
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Opportunities aren't always scarce, sometimes...
Opportunities are scarce. That’s what we’re told. Therefore, we’re constantly worrying that we might miss something; that we’re moving too slow; that our dreams are floating by like clouds, evaporating before we can catch them. The possibility of regret is so palpable, we feel a responsibility to act upon every opportunity that has any hint of potential.
“This could...
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Scholastic Relaunches Animorphs. →
I loved these books as a kid, I read the entire series! I still have them somewhere. I refuse to give them away; I’ll never grow out of it.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say...
– Umberto Eco
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The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
– Ken Kesey
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A writer only has a small family of themes, and however hard you try to write...
– David Mitchell
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Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead...
– Gabrielle Zevin
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