May 2012
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Cannibals →
shakespearneverdidthis:
Do you write about me? She asks me this all the time. Late at night in bed. In the morning when the sun is warming our skin through the big window in our bedroom. The kitten plays on our bodies, leaping back and forth.
I never answer her. Not really. I tell half truths, I say things that, when you break it down, have no meaning. They are just words and I know how to...
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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist...”
– Carl Sagan
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“We were together. I forget the rest.”
– Walt Whitman
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“Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in...”
– Susan Sontag
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Sometimes 5 minutes is the difference between life...
5 minutes spent hugging my daughter before I left the house for a run.
5 minutes spent hearing about her day.
5 minutes spent kissing my husband.
5 minutes that meant I wasn’t hit by a car hurtling across the street, slamming over curbs and swerving on to lawns and driveways. The same place I would have been running if I hadn’t stayed home those extra 5 minutes. I wouldn’t have seen the car...
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“You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they...”
– JK Rowling
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“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to...”
– Barack Obama
This brought tears to my eyes. Not only was this statement an act of political bravery, as well as a major victory for the gay rights community, it makes me proud to have Barack Obama as my president.
“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened...”
– Salvador Dalí
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“But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on....”
– Rachel Maddow
WTH North Carolina?
“Do it or don’t. It’s amazing how many things in life are that easy.”
– Henry Rollins
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For all the people who ask me for writing... →
For all the people who ask me for writing advice…
neil-gaiman:
Neil Gaiman
1 Write.
2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
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“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs...”
– Stephen King
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