February 2012
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“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through...”
– Ellen Goodman (via wetbehindthears)
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January 2012
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December 2011
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“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace, 1996 (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via wordpainting) (via booklover)
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uncertain
Second last semester before the final project paper and suddenly I am very concern over my chosen major and this line from a conversation long ago, has been tolling, clear as a bell in my mind, these past few months. It’s getting louder.
There’s a difference between what you like (referring to the subject I intended to take) and actually studying it
How dare….
I was...
November 2011
13 posts
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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool...”
– Ray Bradbury (via aeloquence)
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“Did you watch “Colbert” last night? They had to stop and say “Michael, sing...”
– Lately, every time Michael Stipe opens his mouth to discuss R.E.M. breaking up, something beautiful comes out (via flavorpill)
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“Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts,...”
– Paulo Coelho (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Each of us is like all other people, like some other people, and like no other...”
– Dr. Carl Jung (via kellyhasadventures)
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The Scourge of "Like"
discoverynews:
scribnerbooks:
Our favorite entry from our favorite grammar grouch, Robert Hartwell Fiske, in his Dictionary of Unendurable English.
Like is used to mean “whatever word or words its user does not know or cannot be bothered to think of… Like means everything and nothing at once.”
What a powerful word to mean nothing and everything.
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one...”
– — Clare Booth Luce
October 2011
14 posts
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“Sometimes the wrong train can take us to the right place.”
– Paulo Coelho (via cordisre)
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Behind the Doors of Banana Republic~ →
I’ll have one of each thankyouverymuch!
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“Terrifying Fact Number Two, is that I’ve just watched Matt Smith carrying a...”
– Steven Moffat, DWM Production Notes (via tzecco)
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“I’m at an Aretha Franklin concert and she breaks down halfway through...”
– — Bill Nighy on his recurring dream (Harper’s Bazaar December 2010)
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“The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s...”
– ‘The Remains of the Day’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via moldavia)
September 2011
11 posts
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“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami (via moldavia)
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“They thought she was just a bag lady, a batty woman. They didn’t know she...”
– We Are All Made of Glue by Marina Lewycka
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“If there was one thing about Liesel Meminger, her thieving was not gratuitous....”
– The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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August 2011
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