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Bitterness was a dead end. Hatred hurt no one more than he who harbored it. The wine of alienation was loneliness. ~ Strangers by Dean Koontz #quote
12:16 PM - Apr 25, 2024
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Excellent podcast episode on the origin of Arthurian legends:
https://podcastaddict.com/...
02:46 PM - Apr 24, 2024
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At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings. ~ Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi #quote #foodforthought
04:06 AM - Apr 15, 2024
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Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect. ~ The Hating Game by Sally Thorne #quote
02:04 AM - Apr 14, 2024
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To men like Vévoda, kindness is a resource to be exploited. ~ Ship of Theseus by VM Straka #quote
03:15 AM - Apr 01, 2024
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A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. ~Raymond Chandler #quote #writing
06:17 AM - Mar 18, 2024
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. ~J S Mill #quote #foodforthought
04:23 PM - Mar 17, 2024
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...feeling is the place every story starts. ... As a writer, your task is to bring this heart-bound feeling to the surface in your reader: to make it well and swell and surge and churn. ~ Dwight V Swain #writing #quote
06:37 AM - Mar 15, 2024
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Phones exploded here, and there was way more nature than Elliot was comfortable with, but there were mermaids and harpies and also true love. ~ In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan #amreading #quote
03:28 AM - Mar 14, 2024
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If you want to travel fast, go alone.
If you want to travel far, go together.
~N'Gambai Tribe
09:19 AM - Mar 12, 2024
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come,
From God who is our home.
~ Wordsworth #quote #poetry
07:16 AM - Mar 12, 2024
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Eternity is in love with the creations of time. ~ William Blake #quote
12:18 PM - Mar 11, 2024
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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossible courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects. ~ Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
04:18 AM - Mar 11, 2024
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It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard . . . is what makes it great. ~ Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own. #quote #inspiration
05:39 AM - Feb 29, 2024
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But that's the problem, you see. No one's focused on how we're all connected. We only think about how we suffer, individually. ~ Babel by RF Kuang #quote #foodforthought
06:32 AM - Feb 13, 2024
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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens #quote
04:38 AM - Feb 08, 2024
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thread 2 Threaded Spouts
When we listen to a superb piece of music or gaze on a wondrous sculpture, the two sides of our nature--thought and feeling--simultaneously link within us, touching depths and shaping qualities that the everyday denies.
09:10 AM - Feb 05, 2024
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a brilliant idea, conceived and executed by a clever young woman, must be claimed by a man. ~ Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price #quote #amreading
06:00 AM - Feb 03, 2024
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It's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, and uncertain than to say, "I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely." ~ Jimmy Carter #quote #inspiration
08:53 AM - Feb 01, 2024
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thread 2 Threaded Spouts
In the late Middle Ages, plagues of rape swept through Europe. To civilize male behavior, troubadours, the pop-culture artists of their day, idealized romance with songs and tales praising the virtues of chaste, chivalric love.
02:30 AM - Jan 26, 2024
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Being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning--a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling. ~ Dawn O'Hara by Edna Ferber #quote #shortstories
03:22 PM - Jan 22, 2024
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime. ~Balzac #quote
08:12 AM - Jan 19, 2024
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I always enjoy reading Maria Popova's notes and reviews, but this piece moved me in particular when it mentioned that those with the biggest regrets in life are artists who have not answered their muse's call:
https://www.themarginalian...
02:46 PM - Jan 17, 2024
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Excellent article on ways to vary conflicts in your stories: https://writershelpingwrit... #writing
08:55 AM - Jan 11, 2024
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A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient. ~ Hannah Arendt #quote #foodforthought
06:39 AM - Jan 11, 2024
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How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us. ~ Ursula K Le Guin #quote
12:34 PM - Jan 09, 2024
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Interesting article on writing for the YA crowd: https://janefriedman.com/4... #writing
08:51 AM - Jan 08, 2024
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. ~ Oscar Wilde #quote #foodforthought
07:32 AM - Jan 07, 2024
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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. ~ Northanger Abbey #janeausten #quote #literature
04:47 AM - Jan 05, 2024
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Fascinating backstory on an animated feature I loved as a child! (In French) Le roi et l'oiseau
https://fb.watch/pkR1ZHPdW... #art #animation
03:31 AM - Jan 03, 2024 (Edited)
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