October 2011
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dvskitten:
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” —William Arthur Ward
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...
– Neil Gaiman (via skeletales)
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People often ask me when and how I knew I was a poet. There are several fancy...
– Pulitzer prize-winning poet Philip Schultz in this excerpt from My Dyslexia on Poems Out Loud. (via wwnorton)
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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to...
– Ellen Hopkins, Crank (via leadmetotruth)
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10 years ago we had Bob Hope, Johnny Cash, and...
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Once you label me you negate me.
– - Søren Kierkegaard (via vampiresa)
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Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
– Kurt Vonnegut (Short Story Writing, Rule #4)
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Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via stillfreetodream) Growth is gained through adversity.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe...
– George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (via avgoustos)
College is supposed to feel like THE means, but in reality it feels more like a...
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Emptiness is the beginning of all things.
– Raymond Carver (via champagnethursdays) It is only in Emptiness that you have the room to fit all the wonders of the world.
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dvskitten:
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
This will be my mission statement.
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Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via sea-m0stro)
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...
– Neil Gaiman (via concio)
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Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be...
– A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman. (via faramirs)
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Here's To The Crazy One →
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered...
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via pavorst)
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It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.
We...
– Chuck Palahniuk (via insaneisonlyanidea)
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http://daringfireball.net/2011/10/universe_dented_g... →
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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and...
– Leo Tolstoy (via avgoustos)
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I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me....
– Julie Gregory (via slekes)
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Adrian Ngiam: You're not special →
adrianngiam:
High school is a terrible place. The social cliques, the self-esteem issues - be it too much or too little, and the optimistic though unrealistic self-concepts. Such turbulence dominates the zeitgeist of that period, and at that particular moment, personalities are ever changing things. In…
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[The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one...
– from Ars Poetica? by Czesław Miłosz (via the-final-sentence)
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[People would ask questions.] But that was later on—for now, gloriously...
– Terry Pratchett, Jingo (thanks, evalilith)
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You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you...
– Mark Z. Danielewski (via atomos)
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A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a...
– 26 years ago today, the world lost E. B. White – remember him with his poetic letter to children on the love of libraries
(via curiositycounts)
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity...
– Mark Twain (via insaneisonlyanidea)
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Books that made a difference to Daniel Radcliffe →
vintageanchor:
1. The Master and Margarita By Mikhail Bulgakov. Daniel Radcliffe has amazon.com to thank for introducing him to this satirical novel about Stalinist Russia, which Bulgakov wrote in secret from 1928 until just before his death in 1940, and which was finally published 26 years later. “I was reading Louis de Bernières’s trilogy on Latin America and this book came up as something I...
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Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century →
vintageanchor:
In honor of the last day of Banned Books Week (September 24 - October 1, 2011) — check out and read some banned books. Here are the Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century…
#10 - The Grapes of Wrath
#9 - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
#8 - Slaughterhouse-Five
#7 - To Kill a Mockingbird
#6 - Fahrenheit 451
#5 - The Catcher in the Rye
#4 - Tropic of Cancer
#3 - Naked...
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If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a...
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via c0mets)
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Chapter 9 Not Exactly Ocean Front Property →