“ We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. ”
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Rumi (via misswallflower
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“ All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situation. If you’re cheating on your wife the repression of that puts things out of balance; or if you’re someone you think you’re not, and you think you should be further ahead in your job, that neurotic vision takes over your life and you’re plagued by it until you’re cleansed. At the end of a play the lie is revealed. The better the play the more surprising and inevitable the lie is. Aristotle told us this. ”
— David Mamet (via elliottholt)
The Book Lady's Best of 2011: Literary Fiction »
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“ Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. ”
— Kurt Vonnegut (via honeyforthehomeless)
My old prof just sent me this great video of Professor Paul Fry at Yale lecturing on Lacan, distinction between want and need, language and the unconscious, in his Theory of Lit class.
“What is desire? The endless deferral of what cannot be signified.”
The Write Idea: A Community Writing Experiment: Beginning The Write Idea »
Such a good idea. I’m going to do this.
Hello!
So here goes an experiment. A social writing experiment, if you will.
I think one of the most valuable things I’ve ever experienced in being a writer is being a part of a community — tackling an idea on my own and seeing how others would tackle it in their own unique way. There’s…
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“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”
—Stephen King
[I’ve posted this quote before, but it’s worth another look.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luh08vcxOK1qd9a66o1_250.jpg)
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“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”
—Stephen King
[I’ve posted this quote before, but it’s worth another look.]
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Shakesbear.
“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they’ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn’t know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with the boss’s daughter-in-law. Trouble so bad that even his protector George may not be able to save him.
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College: Now You Only Need to Write a Blog Post to Get Into College(via @Gawker) »
The Common Application, an online college application system used by Yale University, the University of Virginia, and more than 400 other schools, is limiting the space available for applicants’ personal essays to 500 words.
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“In the drawer of her bedside locker, she kept a foolscap notebook with marbled cardboard covers…. Here behind the name badge and uniform, was her true self, secretly hoarded, quietly accumulating. She had never lost that childhood pleasure in seeing pages covered in her own handwriting.”
–from ATONEMENT, by Ian McEwan
