October 2011
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“I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.”
– Wes Baker, The Truth About Forever (via cosimbored)
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– ― Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via bookoasis)
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“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t...”
– Ray Bradbury, from raybradbury.com article (via bookoasis)
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“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of...”
– C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (via bookoasis)
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“You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also...”
– Stephen King, Night Shift (via bookoasis)
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“You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The...”
– Sean Connery (via booksandnerds)
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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis
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“I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can...”
– Bloom by Elizabeth Scott
not necessarily, see below :)
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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so we just kept on rolling under the...”
– Jack Kerouac
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“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
– George Eliot (via girlwithoutwings)
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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing a short story →
alysian-fields:
Here are Vonnegut’s eight rules for writing a short story:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the...
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“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you!”
– Rumi (via paperlover)
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“Scars remind us that the past was real.”
– Shakespeare (via avgoustos)
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“Everything that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
– Edgar Allen Poe (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
Whoa! Inception! :)
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“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
– John Lennon (via lifeinafilmcanister)
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“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and...”
– Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night (via excessivebookshelf)
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“O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not,...”
– William Blake, from “To Autumn” (via bookoasis)
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“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly...”
– George Eliot (via bookoasis)
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“The tree blushed - a rude blast of air
Betrayed a shapely bough.
My saddened...”
– Mark R. Slaughter, “Pirouetting Autumn” (via bookoasis)
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“Do you know what the earth meditates upon in autumn?”
– Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions (via bookoasis)
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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis (via fleursdesparis)
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“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do...”
– Franz Kafka (via misswallflower)
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