February 2012
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My famous co-worker...
…has family members on Family Feud tonight! Hyperventilating, here.
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“As I learned to tolerate rather than hate my pains (physical, emotional, and...”
– Noah Levine and The Heart of Revolution (via restoried)
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“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad...”
– Stephen King (via alexhasatumblr)
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“Being a broken man himself, Greene knew how to probe the pain and romance of...”
– My hero: Graham Greene | Books | The Guardian (via ayjay)
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writing in the dust: Wisława Szymborska, "Hard... →
wesleyhill:
I’m a poor audience for my memory. She wants me to attend her voice nonstop, but I fidget, fuss, listen and don’t, step out, come back, then leave again. She wants all my time and attention. She’s got no problem when I sleep. The day’s a different matter, which upsets her. She thrusts old letters, snapshots at me eagerly, stirs up events both important and un-, turns my eyes to...
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Tuesdays are my Mondays. Listening to this...
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“Religious enthusiasm is accepted as one of the South’s more grotesque features,...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“Nothing is more remarkable, in the Messianic writings, than the fact that...”
– Tim Gorringe (via Philip Tallon)
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“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via ilovereadingandwriting)
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"Any advice on surviving Valentine's Day when... →
This made me laugh a lot. Check out the picture. I love these people.
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“I think it’s really important to go to your room and sit there. I couldn’t mean...”
– From A Conversation With Stephen Dunn (via wwnorton)
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"February Ground," by Marge Piercey | The Writer's... →
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“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
– Stephen King (via ilovereadingandwriting)
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Basically you will gain 8 pounds just from... →
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“People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they...”
– Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto (via sleepflower)
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writing in the dust: Wislawa Szymborska, "Under... →
THIS has something to do with trauma. And survivor’s guilt. And the conversation I had with my therapist this morning about needing a crisis to pull things together vs. taking things as they come and being healthy at the pace of reality.
lauracricket:
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I’m mistaken, after all. Please, don’t be angry,...
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recycled soul: “They who believe in God can never... →
recycledsoul:
“They who believe in God can never in a way be sure of him again. Once they have seen him in a stable, they can never be sure where he will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation he will descend in his wild pursuit of humankind. If holiness and the awful power and majesty of God were present in this least auspicious of all events, this...
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WatchHappy Friday everyone!
welcome-to-district-12:
WATCH THIS NOW: BRAND NEW HUNGER GAMES TRAILER ONLINE!!
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“We need not expect that life leads to sitting and possessing — in no sense, at...”
– Karl Barth, in a sermon on the final Sunday of 1913 (via Bruce McCormack’s Kantzer Lectures)
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“The word “dreams”… always terrifies me. The artist dreams no dreams. That is...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc) 