December 2010
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 25th
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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between...”
– george orwell
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films,...”
– Ray Bradbury
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had...”
– Eudora Welty
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“Writing is…. being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists...”
–  Mary Gaitskill
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 15th
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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)
Dec 13th
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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
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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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…
Dec 11th
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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...
Dec 10th
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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.
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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“I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say...”
– Umberto Eco
Dec 7th
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“The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”
– Ken Kesey
Dec 6th
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“A writer only has a small family of themes, and however hard you try to write...”
– David Mitchell
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 3rd
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“Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead...”
– Gabrielle Zevin
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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