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October 2011
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“‘Full time,’ for Murakami, means something different from what it...”
– Sam Anderson, from “The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami” in the 10/21/11 New York Times Magazine
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“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via mothersbaugh)
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“Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you to write; find out whether...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars...”
– Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquoy
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“It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not...”
– Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.
One of my favorite opening paragraphs ever ever ever. I start teaching it this week. YES.
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Here’s just a piece of a poem about the person I find it hardest to address in my writing.
So now you are a phantom limb.
Phenomenon I’ll live with
all of my life.
There was no way for me to win, it would seem.
None. I was no one at all.
It’s a bad poem. That piece is the least bad. But I have needed and wanted to write about this person since the first moment we met, in...
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“I’m awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to...”
– Anais Nin
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“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer...”
– Henry Miller (via tres-mysterieux)
Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual,...
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“How many minds opened, how many hearts brought to maturity, how many powerful...”
– John Russell in Paris
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“There is never any ending to Paris, and the memory of each person who has lived...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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“There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it....”
– James Joyce on Paris
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“The weather is icy, but Paris looks beautiful. Everything is white & every...”
– Katherine Mansfield (1913)
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Weltschmerz →
Dictionary.com definition:
1. Sentimental pessimism; sorrow that one feels and accepts as one’s necessary portion in life.
Merriam-Webster online definition:
1 : mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
2 : a mood of sentimental sadness
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National Novel Writing Month Post-a-Day Challenge! →
“November marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a project in which thousands of writers around the world work toward completing a 50,000-word novel by November 30th. Sound like something you want to get in on?”
September 2011
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“This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique...”
– Haruki Murakami (“On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning”)
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“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
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“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness...”
– St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
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“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“The world isn’t a sad place; it’s just big.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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August 2011
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“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become...”
– Woody Allen (via holdentumbrl)
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“You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes...”
– Slavoj Zizek (via holdentumbrl)
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“The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is...”
– Natalie Goldberg
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