February 2012
24 posts
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“Fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground,...”
– Virginia Woolf (via turnstyle-chester)
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books....”
– Cory Doctorow (via atomos)
Watchmandaflewaway:
CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC
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“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn’t good at anything...”
– Mark Vonnegut in his Introduction to Kurt Vonnegut’s Armageddon in Retrospect
“A short story is a writer’s way of thinking through experience…Journalism aims...”
– John L’Heureux (via solo-soliloquies)
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Metal high →
Because I just had a shitty morning.
“We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible. But if a piece...”
– David Foster Wallace, from “A Conversation with David Foster Wallace,” by Larry McCaffery. (via oliveryeh)
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via ifeelhappiestwhenimasleep)
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Love songs Mark and I listened to over the years →
There are others, but most of them are not love songs and are not quite as memorable as these.
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January 2012
15 posts
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“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T. S. Eliot (via turnstyle-chester)
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“You don’t write books to make money, you do it because this is what you love...”
– Neil Gaiman (via neilgaiman)
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– Alan Watts (via neil-gaiman)
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My Wordpress blog →
I’ve been keeping this blog under wraps for a quite some time, partly because I want to fill it with posts first before anyone I know sees it and mostly because I’m not so confident in my writing. On the way home yesterday, I figured what the heck.
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“Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolescence ever, quite...”
– Truman Capote (via quintessenceofacliche)
Everything Neil Gaiman: Gaiman on Copyright Piracy... →
neilgaiman:
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would…
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Writing woe
Reading reviews in the New York Times in the hope of being as good a writer and developing as refined in taste as the critics.
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December 2011
2 posts
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November 2011
8 posts
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“I ran into a lady in the supermarket in Florida. Old lady. There’re lot of old...”
– Stephen King, in the WSJ (via lazybookreviews)
“Ipapatanggal ko itlog ko pag di bumalik ang mga Arroyo.”
– Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio, legal counsel for Former Pres. Gloria Arroyo, expressing confidence that his client would return if allowed to seek medical attention abroad. (via abs-cbn news)
My office keyboard is a treasure trove of crumbs.
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October 2011
16 posts
