December 2010
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Padgett Powell, The Interrogative Mood
booksinthekitchen: The Czech novelist Milan Kundera once wrote that the proper job of fiction is to ask questions. If that’s the case, then Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood must be the greatest novel of all time—for it is no less than an uninterrupted, 165-page string of questions, each asked by a nameless narrator of you, the unsuspecting reader. Such an undertaking is, at the very...
Dec 31st
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marginal gloss: i am james bond →
marginalgloss: While walking alone before, during, or after a fruitful period of writing, I still feel tingling in my brain the same imaginative sense that led me as a child to make believe I was right there and then a secret agent or the captain of a starship. Not that I still entertain those same fantasies…
Dec 31st
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“Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual’s personality into...”
– Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via feelinganddreaming)
Dec 30th
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Dec 25th
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“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has...”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (via chokingsilence)
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Responsibilities? Grades? Expectations? Life?
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Dec 21st
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Don't forget about the lunar eclipse tonight!
“fuckyeahtheuniverse: The eclipse will be visible in most of the norther hemisphere. For the first time in a few centuries, the lunar eclipse will coincide with the winter solstice! “A total lunar eclipse will take place on December 20/21, 2010.[2] It will be visible after midnight Eastern Standard Time on December 21 in North and South America. The beginning of the total eclipse...
Dec 20th
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Dec 17th
WatchWatch
smelltheitaliaa: i just cried so much /:  this is so sad. Sharing the love; for all the baby girls and boys, who have or will become a stranger to their mommys and daddys. You’re not alone. About 40 thousand times on this website only, we showed you that we cared and that was written on these cards matter. Someday, one of us will make you smile, genuinely.
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of those who do evil, but because of...”
– Albert Einstein (via whiskyandwhimsy) (via quote-book) (via captnshamrock) (via workman) (via fucknopoverty) (via teaandphilosophy) (via free-wilderness)
Dec 15th
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“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
– If I Stay by Gayle Forman (via readingtime)
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– (via free-wilderness)
Dec 15th
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.”
– Herzog, Saul Bellow (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Dec 15th
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“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via tomwilk)
Dec 15th
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“The best metaphor I know of for being a fiction writer is in Don DeLillo’s “Mao...”
– David Foster Wallace, “The Nature of the Fun” (via emesq)
Dec 14th
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“Due to scientific limitations and more than a touch of narcissism, we believed...”
– Jon Stewart, Earth: A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race (via quotesforintellectuals)
Dec 14th
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“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it;...”
– W. Somerset Maugham (via suzywire)
Dec 14th
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“Without analysis and criticism, we can’t get to grips with what may or may...”
– AL Kennedy on Writing, Tuesday 30 November 2010.
Dec 14th
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“And being a student will always involve self-indulgence and silliness and...”
– AL Kennedy on Writing, Tuesday 30 November 2010.
Dec 14th
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“Here is something of me and from me, and I have committed to it utterly and it...”
– AL Kennedy on Writing, Tuesday 30 November 2010. 
Dec 14th
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“I spent years either being mocked by a gnawing desire to write … well...”
– AL Kennedy on Writing, Tuesday 30 November 2010.
Dec 14th
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Short Stories Podcast by Great Authors
So I was browsing the internet, skillfully procrastinating the pile of work on my desk, when I’ve stumbled upon a really cool podcast. The Guardian chose a famous authors to read a short stories and analyze them, one for each day! It’s short and sweet; I love it. But then I’m really a fan of audiobooks. Here’s the list of the readings coming up: Philip Pullman The...
Dec 14th
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“A story is something told – as the waitress tells her friend Rita about the fat...”
– Anne Enright reads ‘Fat’ by Raymond Carver
Dec 14th
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“A week ago last Sunday, on a night when most theatres are almost empty, the...”
– Why Belarus Free Theatre deserves a standing ovation Posted by Laura Wade Monday 13 December 2010 12.54 GMT guardian.co.uk
Dec 14th
“It’s a very strange thing to watch a policeman take a truncheon to a book...”
– Books on the frontline of the student protests  Student protesters in London on 9 December. Posted by Jay Griffiths Friday 10 December 2010 15.41 GMT guardian.co.uk
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Dec 7th
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Dec 3rd
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tweexcore: You know what we need, actually, →
tweexcore: it’s not another pseudo renovation, gentrification, political gossip, technology outlet, social media, up and coming anything. What we need is something to remind us how and why to be alive. What we need is something worth fighting for, and to fight for it. What we need is not a hundred…
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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