January 2010
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“Our eager embrace of a brand new verb — to text — speaks volumes. We’re rapidly...”
– By Nicholas Carr from : The Rapid Evolution of “Text” : Our Less Literate Future
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“Today…the familiar letters of the alphabet are more abundant than ever. One of...”
– Nicholas Carr from The Rapid Evolution of Text (via chrbutler) (via smarterplanet)
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“This past year we saw an emergence of a new trend in what everyone wanted from...”
– from the Top 10 Selling Fonts off 2009, by YWFT http://www.youworkforthem.com/blog/2010/01/02/top-fonts-of-2009-ywft/
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“I prefer to talk about the meaning in a story rather than the theme of a story....”
– Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners. Writing Short Stories. (via msodradek) (via smut-to-go)
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“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising,...”
– J.G Ballard (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
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“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must...”
– Rumi (via lookunderfoot) (via oceanofmind) (via clothedinsky)
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“As far as I’m concerned, I am a writer – whether my writing’s spoken or written...”
– Dylan Moran (via annieatkins) (via dailydoseofdylanmoran) (via shakingtambourine)
Jan 27th
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— Jacques Lacarriere Unlearning. Deconditioning your birth. Forgetting your name. Going naked. Sloughing away your last remains. Disrobing your memory. Melting down your masks. Ripping up your duties. Dismantling your certainties. Disconnecting your doubts. Losing control of your being. Unbaptizing your springs. Unmapping your roads. Shearing your desires. Gutting your passions. Desacrilizing the...
Jan 27th
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“Millions of books written on every conceivable subject by all these great minds...”
– Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters) (via 52books) (via oldfilmsflicker) (via debcupti) (via contreplongee) (via popcornandpretty) (via booklover)
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“Poetry — No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. You...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via oedipusrexrexrex) (via fuckyeahthoreau) (via shakingtambourine)
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“To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind....”
– Bernard Edmonds (via jessicachu) (via un-tout-petit-coeur) (via baringmysoul) (via shakingtambourine)
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My Manifesto of successful Marketing - Amir... →
01. Relevance beats awareness. 02. Treat people as Friends not as Consumers or Target Groups. 03. Content is more important than Media. 04. Real Innovation needs Creative Business Consultants. 05. Feed needs instead of creating new ones. 06. Marketing is about product Innovation and not pushing sales. 07. The best Advertsing does not look like Advertsing. 08. The hardest Competition...
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Amazon Announces New 70% Royalty Option for Kindle... →
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“The internet helps drives a wedge between information and meaning: Previously we...”
– quoted from Marginal Utility (via somethingchanged)
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“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There...”
– Wislawa Szymborska (via azspot)
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“With intimacy came a wealth of information on the novelistic as opposed to the...”
– Alain de Botton (via meaghano) (via benjaminhilts) (via mkarmstr) (via muchjunk)(via blogonthe) (via beepbopboop)
Jan 27th
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“Writers fight a myriad of internal battles that are difficult to translate to...”
– Gail Sher, One Continuous Mistake (via nightmarebrunette)(via inamourata)(via isthisblood)(via iamchrysanthemum)
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Robert Frank’s proposal for the Guggenheim grant that enabled him to do what became The Americans, found here: The summary To photograph freely throughout the United States, using the miniature camera exclusively. The making of a broad, voluminous picture record of things American, past and present. This project is essentially the visual study of a civilization and will include caption notes;...
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“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (via theanimalinme) (via tobia) (via rhea137) (via leda-swanson) (via cargohoo) (via beelockwood) (via aboveall-love) (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via dostoyevsky) (via thisissoweird) (via clairefisher)
Jan 27th
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“I came from a hut in Haiti and from there I went to the projects and from there...”
– wyclef jean (via justojusto)
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