December 2009
33 posts
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals...”
– - Love Actually
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“For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner decor in...”
– Albert Camus, Betwixt and Between
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“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it...”
– Mayra Hornbacher, Wasted
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“one of the defining truisms of modern culture: In a reality TV world, no place is deemed more real than New Jersey. Whether it’s “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” or “Jersey Shore,” the fictional mob reality of “The Sopranos” or the real-folks rock of Bruce Springsteen, if you want real reality, not silly poseurs sneaking into the White House, there’s no better place to find it than New...
“The novel’s spirit is the spirit of complexity. Every novel says to the reader:...”
– Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel, transl. Linda Asher (Perennial, 2000), 18. (via enormousair) (via libraryland) (via booklover)
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to...”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing...”
– —Anais Nin
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“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity...”
– - Anonymous
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“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the...”
– - Orson Scott Card
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“We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able...”
– Brian Eno. - The Death of Uncool
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