April 2011
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“And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one...”
– Victor Shklovsky, from Art as Technique ..and must be prolonged.  (via buongiorno)
Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
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March 2011
38 posts
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“Sound is sense, a truer sense, undercutting surface commerce and ideology. When...”
– Erín Moure, My Beloved Wager, Essays from a Writing Practice (NeWest Press, 2009)
Mar 29th
Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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i steal pens: What's the Difference? En Dash vs.... →
mentalflossr: The Dilemma: You’re writing an important memo/term paper/mental_floss book, and you need a dash. But not just any dash. People You Can Impress: Almost no one, really. The Quick Trick: It’s almost always an em dash. No document can ever contain too many em dashes. The Explanation:
Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
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“Poetry is excited language. No matter what message they carry (whether happy or...”
– John Steffler, Canada’s former Parliamentary Poet Laureate from the Brick Books and Poet Laureate Brochure, November 6, 2007
Mar 27th
“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I...”
– David Lynch (via cactopodes)
Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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“TO: My ungrateful students RE: An inspirational letter To be the writers you...”
– Roger Rosenblatt’s “Unless it Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing,” which will be published by HarperCollins on January 11th. Via The New Yorker. (via calliopemused)
Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease...”
– Oscar Wilde (via theonlymagicleftisart)
Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 22nd
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flapjacksblog2 asked: What is your favorite Cartoon Network show?
Mar 18th
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Mar 17th
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“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via mar-see-ah)
Mar 17th
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Mar 17th
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Mar 16th
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde (via savekelso)
Mar 16th
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“I like turning on two radios at the same time and listening to them. I like...”
– Tom Waits (via thebronzemedal)
Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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“It’s very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and...”
– PAUL BOWLES http://www.advicetowriters.com/
Mar 16th
“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I...”
– Robertson Davies
Mar 13th
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“To say ‘I wonder’ is to say ‘I question; I ask.’ The mind seeks. Sometimes it...”
– Marian Bantjes http://www.bantjes.com/i-wonder/about-book
Mar 13th
Mar 7th
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Mar 5th
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“My paintings are the ashes of my heart.”
– Yves Klein (via youarenotrational)
Mar 2nd
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