March 2013
2 posts
“Life on Earth is quite a bargain.
Dreams, for one, don’t charge admission....”
– Wislawa Szymborska
February 2013
1 post
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December 2012
2 posts
“The writer Julian Barnes, considering mourning, once said, “It hurts just as...”
– Zadie Smith
October 2012
3 posts
July 2012
2 posts
“If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it...”
– Bernard Byer (via dknyprgirl)
June 2012
2 posts
May 2012
4 posts
WHEN SOMEONE SAYS TABLETS WILL SAVE JOURNALISM
editorrealtalk:
“Instead of worrying that you’re just gonna fall apart without a job, give...”
– Stacy London (via Media Beats)
“Ironically, Rogers announced an increased commitment to female consumers just...”
– That’s Canadian writer Sabrina Maddeaux putting the boots to Rogers Media over its decision to shutter a slew of (successful) websites this week, including category leader Sweetspot.ca. (via craigsilverman)
April 2012
1 post
“So much about having a manuscript accepted is just out of your hands: the blood...”
– Lorrie Moore, The Art of Fiction No. 167
I fear the same is true with magazine pitches.
March 2012
2 posts
“For surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri “My Life’s Sentences”
February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
4 posts
“Song operates on so many levels. It operates on the level you just spoke of...”
– Leonard Cohen in The Guardian
“Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present… the name for this denial is...”
– Midnight in Paris (2011)
December 2011
3 posts
“I just like how he’s always leaning. Against stuff. He leans great.”
– Claire Danes as Angela Chase on Jared Leto as Jordan Catalano in My So Called Life (via stephanielacava)
And please see my previous post: “He’s always closing his eyes like it hurts to look at things.”
“There have been creeping indications that the magazine business isn’t really...”
– David Carr, The New York Times
November 2011
5 posts
October 2011
8 posts
“I looked up the most commonly used nouns. The number one most common noun was...”
– Miranda July’s book excerpts in The New Yorker are killing me. Thank goodness I’m not 35 yet.
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“For a moment I could feel time the way he felt it—it was endless. Everything...”
– Miranda July
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September 2011
9 posts
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“…my mum once told me the tricky thing about aging is that essentially, as...”
– Maya Villiger from Turned Out
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