March 2010
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Dead Writers
awritersruminations: This is another passage that I put on my writing tumblr livingtowrite but felt like it could be shared here since it’s about writers. livingtowrite: Sometimes when I am reading classic works of literature by authors who have been dead for decades, even centuries, I have this moment when I can’t comprehend that they, at one time, wrote the words that I am reading, that...
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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays, C.S. Lewis (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Mar 9th
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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get...”
– Lucille Ball (via twelve7reign)
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“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to...”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via herarchaicsmile)
Mar 7th
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“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still...”
– Civil Disobedience and Other Essays, Henry David Thoreau (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Mar 7th
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A Writer's Ruminations: To-Read List →
I am making a list of books I would like to read this year and I’m hoping that by making this list, I will actually be forced to read them. Wish me luck! War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Sense… Mind if I add this to mine? Good luck!
Mar 7th
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Mar 6th
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Here Comes the Sun: Reblog If you was were born in... →
scratchyrocknroll: loressag: illfollow-thesun: ghostpunch: … I wish I was born so much earlier than 1994. Fuck 1989. I should have been born in 1947 Fuck 1990. My year is 1949. This will be the one time I do one of those “reblog if” things, and only because this one is so true for me. I wish I could’ve lived through the 40s, 50s,… ditto I should’ve been born in the 40s or 50s. then...
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“I like the image of life better than life itself. I don’t think real life...”
– François Truffaut (via herarchaicsmile)
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath (via girl-on-fire, loveyourchaos, bethbluestocking)
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A Writer's Ruminations: On David Foster Wallace... →
awritersruminations: I’ve been reading about the writer David Foster Wallace, a writer that I had never heard of until recently. In the last year of his life he was consumed by depression after quitting the medication that had stablilized him for two decades. One day, when his wife left their house, he hung himself…. As someone who was diagnosed with major depression, and has been on...
Mar 2nd
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