October 2010
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I barely post in here anymore
Do not be afraid to unfollow.
September 2010
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July 2010
3 posts
As the years passed he fell into a daily routine that seldom varied during...
– Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Daily Routine « Submitted For Your Perusal
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
– Honoré de Balzac in Lettres (1832) (via predatorywaspobserver) (via awritersruminations)
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
6 posts
You get a little moody sometimes, but I think that’s because you like to read....
– The Prince of Tides (via forgottoforget) (via awritersruminations)
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
– Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from?...
– Carson McCullers (via awritersruminations) (via libraryland)
March 2010
1 post
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains...
– Colette (via awritersruminations)
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
1 post
November 2009
2 posts
October 2009
3 posts
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted...
– David Foster Wallace (via tmblg) (via markn) (via synecdoche)
August 2009
3 posts
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An hour of David Foster Wallace on "To The Best of... →
boggle:
faithandbegorrah:
The program ends with his sister recounting her memories of him and an audio clip of his commencement speech at Kenyon College. I need to drink something now.
reblog for later, can’t deal at the moment.
July 2009
5 posts
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...
– Neil Gaiman (via i’ll join the wolves) (via strepitupido) (via batchiara) (via rispostesenzadomanda) (via expectingtofly) (via fuckyeahzenmind)
June 2009
4 posts
1 tag
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
– Wayne Dyer (via fuckyeahzenmind)
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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
– Lee Salk (via robot-heart)
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Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing,...
– WInston Churchhill
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose...
– William Faulkner (via reluctantbuddha)
May 2009
10 posts
1 tag
On my coming back,
how many pathways are there
through the spring grasses?
– Saigyo.
I mean, his [Holden Caufield] life is so different from yours.But isn’t that...
– the Judy Blume, who is on a message board for one of my clients (Random House) answering teen’s questions. If you get a moment, read through her answers to them. She is so smart and inspiring. (via mascarah) (via jamesyates)
Really good work probably comes out of a willingness to disclose yourself, open...
– David Foster Wallace.
Talent’s just an instrument. It’s like having a pen that works...
– David Foster Wallace.
April 2009
31 posts
I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...
– jonathan safran foer (via racheldorn) (via iheartlove) (via comeanddance) (via everythinglovely) (via breathsoftruth) (via finallyseeing) (via casimirpulaskiday) (via iguessthatscool) (via unicornology)
Become who you are.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via beautifuldefinition) (via coffeeandlipstick) (via iwantmybearsuit) (via iguessthatscool) (via unicornology)
We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in...
– Leo Buscaglia (via onherway)