March 2012
81 posts
February 2012
47 posts
“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your...”
– President Barack Obama (via jona-vark)
Oh, hey! It’s that Obama. Where you been these last four years, friend?
It's Extra Magic Bonus Happy Leap Year Day!
neil-gaiman:
Please celebrate Leap Year Day in the traditional manner by taking a writer out for dinner.
It’s been four years since many authors had a good dinner. We are waiting. Many of us have our forks or chopsticks at the ready - some of us have had them ready for days. We will repay you by drifting off while the food is being served and then suddenly scribbling something down on a scrap...
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old,...”
– Socrates (via psychotherapy)
Definitions Explained Better Than I Ever Could.
racismschool:
This is an exert from the article Why There’s No Such Thing as Reverse Racism. It is a fantastic article and I encourage you to read it in it’s entirety. For now, I want to highlight the explanation/definition of three specific words.
Prejudice is an irrational feeling of dislike for a person or group of persons, usually based on stereotype. Virtually everyone feels some sort of...
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“SMALL VALENTINE’S DAY POEM
Roses are red,
Violets are purple,
Which is a...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2006/02/small-valentines-day-poem.html (via neil-gaiman)
“I’m not essentially a happy person but I have all kinds of joy.”
– Orson Welles (via tmills)
“Healing grief does not mean making the grief disappear, but rather making peace...”
– Barry Grosskopf (via psychotherapy)
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“Whatever you are writing, it is making you better. There is no lost time, there...”
– How Writers Can Stay Optimistic - Amy Spencer - GalleyCat (via cleolinda)
“Rather than set the world on fire with radical contigency, I expect that ebooks...”
– Carl Zimmer responds to Jonathan Franzen’s rant against ebooks. (via freepressbooks)
Yes. Can we talk about the actual content of books again now?
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“It does not seem to me to be enough to say of any description that it is the...”
– Charles Dickens
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“What shall we call our ‘self’? Where does it begin? Where does it...”
– Madame Merle to Isabel Archer, The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James (1881).
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“Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are,...”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr. (via creatingaquietmind)
