January 2011
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So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...
– Dead Poet’s Society (via thegirlwiththemessyhair)
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I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but...
– Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of a Writer (via literary-labyrinth)
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Wanda Jackson - “Thunder on the Mountain” (feat. Jack White) (via myonetruevine)
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Flaubert, a man of nocturnal habits, usually awoke at 10 a.m. and announced the...
– Frederick Brown, Flaubert (via William Landay)
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Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in...
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “The Creative Personality”
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A short documentary about what it takes to give a TED Talk.
“The thing is not to get self-conscious. It’s just like playing the piano. If you play the piano and suddenly start looking at your fingers… the music will stop.” — Sir Ken Robinson
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The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next...
– Arnold Bennett (via jadorelavie)
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral...
– John Kenneth Galbraith (via rethinksocialism)
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Trailer for the new restoration of Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin.”
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