December 2011
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“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep...”
– Salman Rushdie (via passade)
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
– Anton Chekhov (via talkativolive)
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Maya Angelou (via fleurishes) … with this in mind, I am getting to work
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White (via creatingaquietmind)
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“No, I write some weird thing and then figure out what that means and then go...”
– ~musician Niles Rodgers, via this brilliant post by Roz Morris: https://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/everybody-dance-we-all-go-wrong-before-we-get-it-right/
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without...”
– Albert Camus (via julie911)
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“This hour too will be more lovely in recollection.”
– Anna Kamienska (via laceofpearls)
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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“Maybe that’s what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we...”
– Tom Perrotta (via quote-book)
Dec 22nd
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“There aren’t shortcuts. Merely direct paths. Most people don’t take them,...”
– Seth Godin (via ingwaybee)
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via bookmania)
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person,...”
– Ray Bradbury (via creatingaquietmind)
Dec 20th
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“When I was first starting out people always said, ‘Write what you know.’...”
– Maureen McHugh (via austinkleon)
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via creatingaquietmind)
Dec 20th
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The most important thing to remember: one thing at a time.
Dec 19th
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“It’s not because you don’t do concerts that you can’t play the piano.”
– Alexis Jenni, 48-year-old high school biology teacher and surprise winner of France’s top literary prize, quoted in “When Does a Writer Become a Writer?” (He’s keeping his day job, by the way.) My favorite quote from this article: “A writer is not defined by his career, but the simple act of...
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Bob Lefsetz on lessons learned from Louie C.K. →
I’d add: “You don’t do this by yelling at them, but by creating work they value.” Great article, go read it austinkleon: Really great list. Some excerpts: …No one arrives instantly formed… …It’s easy to be famous. It’s hard to have fans… …Publicity is a byproduct, it comes after the fact… …You just do the work, you never know what will happen… …A good marketing plan...
Dec 17th
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“It’s better to use your head than break your back, I always say.”
– Johann D. Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson (via bookmania)
Dec 17th
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“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– C.G. Jung (via creatingaquietmind)
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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