February 2012
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Why weeds can exist only where man lives and works
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman....”
– Roald Dahl (via inkandlightarts)
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“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore...”
– Mark Twain
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“Three can keep a secret, if none of them blog about it.”
– ‘Benjamin Franklin’
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“Invent your own mythology or be slave to another man’s.”
– William Blake
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Finally someone putting Klout in its place →
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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”
– William Faulkner
Seems that Faulkner understood the difficulty and imprecise nature of transmitting thoughts to paper.
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Overheard in NYC #1: C train platform 1:14 am
Drunk 20 something: Hold the train!
Conductor: ...
Drunk 20 something: I know you can hear me!
Conductor: ...
Drunk 20 something: You better not!
Conductor on loudspeaker: Stand clear of the closing doors.
Drunk 20 something: You fucker! I hate the C train anyway! Take your little runt train and stick it!
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New Issue of Runaway Parade: Bravado Part 2 →
Check out a whole new batch of art and writing!
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“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken...”
– No one says show don’t tell like Chekhov
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“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives...”
– Leave it to George Orwell to provide somber insights into the process of writing.
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“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.”
– Jules Renard
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You know language has reached a critical point of degeneration when people argue that smiley faces can replace punctuation :)
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“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night in the fog. You can only see as...”
– E. L. Doctorow
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“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do...”
– Franz Kafka
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Rosa Parks: an Inaccurate Portrayal
(I thought this would be fitting considering her birthday)
I remember learning about Rosa Parks as a kid. They told me that by refusing to move from her seat, Parks was inadvertently drawn into the Civil Rights Movement and set off the Montgomery bus boycott. She was described as an elderly woman, physically feeble; they said she refused to stand up because she was too tired. I learned that...
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Live Literature in the Heights
Our contributor Erin Lynn has a literature and poetry reading event coming up in NYC. Here’s the details:
Please join us for
The Local Word
a night of live literature
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Expires 2020.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilypdunne/5727890258/lightbox/
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