February 2012
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Maybe the terror is part of the necessary... →
stranger comfort
for a moment, i thought it was you.
i recognized the sweep of your ponytail escaping a bundled scarf. i watched your gait crossing Seventh Avenue just after 10 and walked downwind of your cologne and cigarette stench. i saw your bright pink Dora backpack charging up the Packer steps. i heard your voice ask ‘do we need eggs?’ from the next aisle and your laugh echo across the benches...
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Watchstyle is the answer to everything.
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if it sounds like writing, I rewrite it →
The creator of Raylan Givens, author Elmore Leonard, listed his rules to ‘show, not tell’ for the Times in 2001. Well worth a read.
3. Never use a verb other than ”said” to carry dialogue.
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. But said is far less intrusive than grumbled, gasped, cautioned, lied. I once noticed Mary...
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Who wants to do this with me? →
January 2012
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“When my husband died, because he was so famous & known for not being a...”
– ~ Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan (via conflictingheart)
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magazine covers you wanna lick →
addiction is an understatement
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Nothing Good Gets Away →
the last lines of a letter from Steinbeck to his eldest son, who was falling in love…(via letters of note)
And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. Love, Fa
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i got a fucking kitten
this is izzy. she’s five months old. and, she’s mine (poor thing).
i’m not a cat person. i’m a big, slobbery, thinks-it-can-fit-in-your-lap, ginormous dog person. everyone who knows me, knows i’m not a cat person. since i decided two days ago to take a gander through the ASPCA and walked out with Izzy, more than a few friends have wondered aloud whether this was...
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“When you have been loved, fiercely, and for years at a time, it is difficult to...”
– No Great Illusion: Unsettled
(via beenthinking)
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There can’t be a novelist who writes with more authority about clothes. If you are going to pay serious attention to women—to their sense of themselves, their position (social, political, economic), their assumptions about the face they are presenting to their world, it helps a good deal if you know exactly what they are wearing. Joan Didion always knows which woman is wearing a Liberty shift and...
Bookshelf Porn →
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“I write these words at a time when my latest novel in progress has been deemed...”
– Nick Tosches, spring 1996, in preface to 20-year revised edition of Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock ‘n’ Roll
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grown ups remember new year's 2k12
megan: sure, i mean, i tried [coke], like, five years ago, but he's 28 now
me: yeah
megan: we're too old for that shit now
me: ...
megan: what?
me: but not too old to drink so much i have to hold your hair back while you puke into the toilet?
megan: shut up, slut
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December 2011
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“And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how the...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot