October 2011
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Oct 23rd
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Listenchris-goods: Skrillex - San Diego VIP (Nothing...
Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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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
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via skeletales)
Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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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)
Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 17th
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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)
Oct 17th
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Oct 16th
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10 years ago we had Bob Hope, Johnny Cash, and...
Oct 16th
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“Once you label me you negate me.”
–  - Søren Kierkegaard (via vampiresa)
Oct 15th
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Oct 15th
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Oct 14th
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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)
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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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.
Oct 13th
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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)
Oct 13th
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“College is supposed to feel like THE means, but in reality it feels more like a...”
Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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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.
Oct 12th
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dvskitten: “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”  ~ Benjamin Franklin  This will be my mission statement.
Oct 12th
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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)
Oct 11th
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– Neil Gaiman (via concio)
Oct 11th
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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)
Oct 9th
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Here's To The Crazy One →
Oct 8th
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Oct 7th
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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)
Oct 7th
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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We...”
–  Chuck Palahniuk (via insaneisonlyanidea)
Oct 7th
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http://daringfireball.net/2011/10/universe_dented_g... →
Oct 6th
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Oct 6th
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“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via avgoustos)
Oct 6th
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Oct 5th
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“I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me....”
–  Julie Gregory (via slekes)
Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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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…
Oct 4th
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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)
Oct 4th
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“[People would ask questions.] But that was later on—for now, gloriously...”
– Terry Pratchett, Jingo (thanks, evalilith)
Oct 3rd
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Oct 2nd
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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)
Oct 2nd
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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)
Oct 2nd
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“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity...”
–  Mark Twain (via insaneisonlyanidea)
Oct 2nd
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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...
Oct 2nd
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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...
Oct 2nd
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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)
Oct 2nd
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Chapter 9 Not Exactly Ocean Front Property →
Oct 1st
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