Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here.Eve Ensler (via misswallflower)(via teachingliteracy)
- 28th January
2012 - 28
- 6th January
2012 - 06
Hi.: What happens if you fall in love with a writer?
Lots of things might happen. That’s the thing about writers. They’re unpredictable. They might bring you eggs in bed for breakfast, or they might all but ignore you for days. They might bring you eggs in bed at three in the morning. Or they might wake you up for sex…
- 28th December
2011 - 28
- 22nd December
2011 - 22
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Read by Christopher Walken
(Source: speakcelebrity, via teachingliteracy)
- 22nd December
2011 - 22
I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.
- 11th December
2011 - 11
Well done, Cracked.
- 8th December
2011 - 08
Recut Movie of the Day: No telling how long this recut version of Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction that plays the film’s scenes in chronological order will stay up before the Powers That Hate Fun pull it down, so take 2-1/2 hours out of your day and watch it now.
Your boss will surely understand. And if he/she doesn’t, quit. You deserve to work for someone who does.
- 2nd December
2011 - 02
How many fake shopping list items can Greg Benson and Ryan Smith get through before the Target store employee helping them walks away or Greg and Ryan start cracking up?
Every store should carry Fancy Boy Lip Glitter.
- 2nd December
2011 - 02
When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.The secret of life in 46 seconds, courtesy of Steve Jobs. Monumental. Plus his thoughts on fear and failure in this rare 1995 video interview from the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association. (via curiositycounts)(via teachingliteracy)
- 30th November
2011 - 30
An old card catalog, on display in a library, has been converted to memorial plaques.
Photo by lauripiper
(via sav3mys0ul)
- 29th November
2011 - 29
- 22nd November
2011 - 22
On Keeping a Notebook
tetw:
by Joan Didion
Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all? It is easy to deceive oneself on all those scores.
- 13th November
2011 - 13
one paragraph later. i need to follow this advice:
“I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.”
—Jennifer Egan
(Source: yeahwriters, via teachingliteracy)
- 16th October
2011 - 16
Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved. Those three things haven’t changed from my childhood. I know what I love, still, now. That’s a confidence. If you don’t know what you love, you are lost.Haruki Murakami, interviewed in The Guardian. (via fabula)(Source: thebronzemedal, via teachingliteracy)
- 15th October
2011 - 15
