summer stories

"You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn’t matter..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:55:48 -0400

“You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance — you don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.”

- Daniell Koepke

Incommensurable

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:57:50 -0400

Not able to be judged by the same standard as something; having no common standard of measurement.

"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared..."

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:39:33 -0400

“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”

- Johnny Depp

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Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:00:52 -0400

To-Read: Summer 2013

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:18:00 -0400

The Cat’s Table - Michael Ondaatje
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)
The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie

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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:45:19 -0400

"How do we as authors feel we have the right to stand beside someone like him [Neelan Tiruchelvam]?..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:53:10 -0400

““How do we as authors feel we have the right to stand beside someone like him [Neelan Tiruchelvam]? Or the journalist Lasantha Wikramatunga, who wrote news articles criticizing the government, and was probably killed by those he criticized. I don’t know. It feels there’s this great gulf between them and us. But just as we see people like Neelan and Lasantha as our heroes, I do know that Neelan’s heroes were writers… So a radical idea in an English book inspires a dancer in Sri Lanka. A Russian poet’s words are quoted by a young Tamil lawyer in Colombo. The power of words. No matter how unpolitical a sentence might seem, it changes us. How important a sentence is, a pen… I know this is an award for writing, but I would like to accept it on behalf of Neelan Tiruchelvam, who loved the truth he found in literature. If writers influenced him, he must always influence us.””

- Michael Ondaatje accepting the 2011 PEN Literary Service Award at PEN’s Literary Gala

"The worst thing you ever write is still better than the best thing that you didn’t write"

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:28:27 -0400

“The worst thing you ever write is still better than the best thing that you didn’t write”

- Unknown

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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:26:48 -0400

"Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of..."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:19:00 -0400

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Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

”

- Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:29:15 -0400

"Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never..."

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:53:06 -0400

“Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never share it with anyone.”

- http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:16:58 -0400

My mother raised me to be admired.

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:40:00 -0500

My mother raised me to be admired.

Go on that adventure

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:39:19 -0500

Go on that adventure

moldavia: Karlie Kloss in Muse #33 Spring 2013 by Mariano...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:43:34 -0500

moldavia:

Karlie Kloss in Muse #33 Spring 2013 by Mariano Vivanco

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Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:17:56 -0500