September 2010
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“[Being a writer is] an awful curse to wish on anybody — from the day you begin...”
– Budd Schulberg, The Disenchanted (1950) (via)
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inkies asked: Hey Bill, "Photolexis" is dead. Long live Inklink "an offshoot of Palimpsest.
See you there.
See you there.
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“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose … only then will you learn...”
– Winston Churchill (via The Impossible Cool).
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“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing...”
– The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“This thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had —...”
– Katherine Anne Porter, The Paris Review, 1963
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“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome...”
– John Berger, 1987. (Source: Lapham’s Quarterly, “The City,” Fall 2010.)
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The scope-severity paradox →
The more victims, the less likely we are to respond.
[A recent study] is the first to show that the bias toward feeling empathy for a single individual versus many — known as the identifiable victim bias — causes people to make judgments based on emotion that are disproportionate to the severity of a crime.
“The inspiration for the study was the observation that we tend to focus an...
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Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground cover) - Beck...
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“Here is the great difference between reading and writing. Reading is a vocation,...”
– Susan Sontag, from Writers [On Writing]: Collected Essays from The New York Times (via wordpainting)
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“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being...”
– blue_beetle on metafilter (via @bryce) (via mattlehrer) (via trottoria)
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“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has...”
– W.H. Auden, “The Guilty Vicarage” (via About Last Night).
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“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
– Plato (via wordpainting)
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“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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