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)
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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)
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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:
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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
I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I...
– David Lynch (via cactopodes)
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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)
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease...
– Oscar Wilde (via theonlymagicleftisart)
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flapjacksblog2 asked: What is your favorite Cartoon Network show?
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via mar-see-ah)
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde (via savekelso)
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I like turning on two radios at the same time and listening to them. I like...
– Tom Waits (via thebronzemedal)
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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/
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I...
– Robertson Davies
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
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My paintings are the ashes of my heart.
– Yves Klein (via youarenotrational)