January 2012
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I came to the conclusion that ‘God’ is just the word ‘good’ with the ‘o’ taken...
– Paul McCartney (via suzywire)
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When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...
– Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Whirling Sound of Planet Dickens” (via fwriction)
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Imagine him as a cruel villain with a cape and a mustache and a grand,...
– Alison, Hi.: The art of getting really dumped (via quotewhore)
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teachingliteracy:realkidsgoodbooks:washingtonpoststyle: Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak. This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.)
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Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ,... →
madamethursday:
inkstone:
Ahahaha, and here comes Anonymous into the fray!
I don’t always agree with Anonymous and what they do, but damn. This time, I can’t help but cheer a bit for them.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via halfstrippedtrees)
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everylovelysummersday asked: I used to follow you on Xanga and when you moved here I did as well. I miss all of those brilliant quotes you used to post on there. Thanks for introducing me to Tumblr!
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madame thursday: Sent to tumblr: →
madamethursday:
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super-eklectic1:stfuconfederates:icingonthekaek: I’m about to write an post, as well as a guest post to a well-known…
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Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man’. We...
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women”. (via leahblaine)
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All that each person is, and experiences, and shall ever experience, in body and...
– James Agee. (via winesburgohio)
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Themes recur again and again in my work. I have been poor and I wanted to...
– Photojournalist Eve Arnold Dies at 99 (via Huffington Post)
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December 2011
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A decade ago, I wrote:
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams...
– Neil Gaiman
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How Novel: 14 Literary Settings Inspired by Real... →
thegirlandherbooks: 1. Growing up in the midwest means a field trip to Hannibal, Missouri, to see Mark Twain’s old haunting grounds—it was the highlight of my sixth-grade year. Twain has said there was no better place for a boy to grow up than Hannibal and was thus inspired to use many of the area’s landmarks in his…
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