March 2010
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"When I write ... "
shonpapri:
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people’s, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a...
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“A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.”
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Feral Children →
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“What really knocks me out is a book, when you’re all done reading it, you wished...”
– The Catcher in the Rye (via inspiri) (via acharmedlife) (via deconstruct) (via iwantmybearsuit) (via unicornology)
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Einstein Quotes
[Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page. I’m afraid I can’t vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.]
Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein
“Any intelligent...
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Low Impact Woodland Housing - Very Hobbit-ish! →
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Stage 1: Denial
fairphantom:
Maybe David Tennant Can Guest Star! There is his copy in the other dimension!
Didn’t think of that one - sweet! Delicious little ray of hope…thx.
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February 2010
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“It’s the paradox of choice,” says Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology at...”
– http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitness/Female-Depression-Why-Women-Are-Unhappier-Than-They-ve-Been-in-Years/ELLE-Beauty-Neurotica
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“It’s possible that in the era of the feminine mystique, women felt ashamed to...”
– http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitness/Female-Depression-Why-Women-Are-Unhappier-Than-They-ve-Been-in-Years/ELLE-Beauty-Neurotica
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“Once I was beautiful, now I am myself.”
– Anne Sexton
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“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, “I sometimes think that...”
– Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (via shonpapri)
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via shonpapri)
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"But the problem with readers ... "
shonpapri:
But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, “I should sit here and I should be entertained.” And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician.
An amateur musician who sits at the piano,...
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