February 2012
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January 2012
1 post
The Solitary
art-of-drowning:
No: my heart shall be a tower, and I myself set at its highest rim: where nothing else exists, once again pain and the unsayable, once again world.
Still one thing alone in immensity, growing dark then light again, still one last face full of longing thrust out into the unappeasable,
still one uttermost face made of stone heeding only its own inner gravity, while the distances...
December 2011
3 posts
“Consider the dystopia: a world where polite society has vanished, where you have...”
– The spectacular Patrick Ness reviewing Ship Breaker for The Guardian. (via thebookishdark)
“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a...”
– David Bowie (via excessivebookshelf)
November 2011
4 posts
“As a young girl, I was an opinionated, asocial, extroverted, impossible...”
– Sci-fi author Anne McCaffrey (via thelibrarianontherun)
October 2011
26 posts
“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via cabbageandking)
“Avoid this error: that so many chances die
when the one choice is made: to be!...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Utne Reader: Classic Ways to Combat Writer's Block →
utnereader:
1. A Faithful Servant
In the tradition of The Hunchback of Notre Dame novelist Victor Hugo, you could order your servants not to give you clothes until you’ve finished a chapter. Hugo found complete nudity—in the privacy of a room furnished simply with a desk, pen, and paper—to be his most…
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“Play a game where you close your eyes very tightly, and when you open your eyes,...”
– Amelia Gray
am/PM
“…Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or...”
– Usula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
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“There is a poetry to the wasted life, but little beauty.”
– Amelia Gray
am/PM
“We want to be human, always, again, so we knelt like children at prayer while...”
– “Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea”
Cecilia Woloch
September 2011
44 posts
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“You see control can never be a means to any practical end. … Control can never...”
– William S. Burroughs (via philphys)
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(Untitled), by William Bronk
colindwyer:
Ultimate reality has its own
zip code: 12839.
This is all it is. Write to me. Here.
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“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly;...”
– Ernest Hemingway
(Anyone have a light?)
“You want crazy frosting on sane cake.”
– Dan Savage
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Dead Writers Club: Happy Deathday, Mr. Neruda! →
deadwriters:
On this day in 1973, beloved Chilean poet and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda, died of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
Neruda’s impact on other poets cannot be denied and due to the sheer volume of his work, there is little chance of Neruda ever being…