Apr
28
8:00 AM Earthquake
Like the roof of your house cracking its back before it gets up in the morning.
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Apr
26
Thank you, Ernest Hemingway
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
-Ernest Hemingway
Can’t describe the relief I felt when this quote came up after I googled, “What do you do if your first draft is crap?”
Hemingway must seriously have a pipeline into my soul; it’s as though he’s intent on encouraging me from the grave. Maybe it’s because of the pilgrimage I made to his home/literary shrine in Havana. Or the fact that I’m vocal about my literary loyalties when I tell people that Jhumpa Lahiri ripped off all of Hemingway’s short stories and added curry and saffron rice to them in order to win a Pulitzer and IT’S LIKE NOBODY EVEN NOTICED.
Apr
25
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit.”
Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Letters of Note: Forget your personal tragedy (via nevver)
That’s certainly how it feels today. Every word is pathetic, every sentence wilts. The whole project feels disheveled and rotting. I hate it I hate it I hate it.
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“Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.”
-E.B. White
“For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark – my thirst for books, my observations of people, all tend to satisfy a great, overwhelming desire to know, to understand, to find an answer to a million questions. And gradually the answers are revealed, many things are explained, and above all, many things are given names and described, and my restlessness is subdued. Then I become and exclamatory person, clapping my hands to the immense surprises the world holds for me, and falling from one ecstasy into another. I have the habit of peeping and prying and listening and seeking – passionate curiosity and expectation. But I have also the habit of being surprised, the habit of being filled with wonder and satisfaction each time I stumble on some wondrous thing.”
Anaïs Nin (via modernhepburn)
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Laxmi Vilas Palace, Baroda, India, 1890
Apr
17
Canada to Introduce Glow-in-the-Dark Quarter
“When Canada introduced polymer bills last year to replace their paper ones, we thought – cool! Then just a few weeks ago, the Canadian government announced it was doing away with pennies as a cost-cutting measure, and we thought – seems drastic, but ok! Now they’ve announced that a new quarter to be released next week will glow in the dark. Alright – Canada’s completely lost it.”
It glows in the dark AND it has a dinosaur on it. I think it’s possible that the Royal Canadian Mint is being run by an 11-year-old boy. And, you know what? I think we should hire one for the United States Mint too, because that quarter is awesome.
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