July 2011
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June 2011
49 posts
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Prompt
As a baby, he was an escape artist.
“I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the...”
– Bruce Springsteen
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What was a time when you got really, really sick?
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via agoodthinghappened)
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“All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?”
– (via ekiachmadrujai)
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Picnic in a graveyard.
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One Book - Nonfiction →
tetw:
Hot on the heels of ‘One Book, One Tumblr’, we’ve decided to run a similar poll for nonfiction. For those who haven’t come across the concept, the idea is to choose an outstanding book with the aim of getting communities reading and exchanging their thoughts.
If you would like to get involved, please nominate a book (or books) by reblogging this post, tagging posts...
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bookladysblog:
“The problem with Facebook is that it nurtures one of writing teachers’ greatest foes — the teenage fantasy that writers write only to themselves and to those who are just like them.”
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Good food for thought here re: Facebook is bad for more than our grammar skills.
Views: The Facebook Mirror - Inside Higher Ed
The problem isn’t just Facebook. How many other places have...
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“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Where Does Creativity Come From?
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
— Rollo May
The things we fear most in organizations—fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances—are the primary sources of creativity.
—Margaret J. Wheatley
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Prompt
At first whiff, we thought the Yardleys had gotten out the grill.
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Fernando French: The Short List →
fernandofrench:
The arduous task of whittling 131 titles down to five is finally complete. Here are the nominees for the first-ever One Book, One Tumblr:
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Extremely…
“There are moments that mark your life, moments when you realize nothing will...”
– Unknown (via thingssheloves)
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Linguistic Adventures
I pointed to the character for “niu,” which I still thought meant “girl.”
“Why that extra stroke mark?” I asked He Jin.
“Not important,” he said… .
“It’s not a thing you call your mother or your sister,” I suggested.
“Not your mother.”
“What about your sister?”
“I don’t have a...
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How do you measure impact?
bookladysblog:
“Maybe the measure of our reading should therefore be, not the number of books we’ve read, but the state in which they leave us … whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.”
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Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books (via fabula)
This resonates as I discover that the books I like aren’t...
“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids,...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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Prompt
The ashtray had gone missing.
