February 2012
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Rabbit/Zooey →
“Rabbit does not use the word ‘phoney’ very often but there are times when his misanthropy reaches the outer limits of Holdenesque recoil: what is it about everybody else that keeps grating on my nerves? What’s wrong with them? What’s wrong with me?”
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“I ask very little from life, and even this was denied me. A nearby field, a ray...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, text 6
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Vladimir Nabokov's Son Dmitri Dies in Switzerland →
strangephenomena:
Dmitri Nabokov, the only child of acclaimed novelist Vladimir Nabokov who helped protect and translate his father’s work while also pursuing careers as an opera singer and race car driver, has died. He was 77.
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“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be...”
– - A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman. (via faramirs)
I said it on the Nerdist Podcast, and I believe it. It’s as true for any area of the arts, not just writing. Perhaps it’s true for life.
(via neil-gaiman)
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I gave up morals when I took up booze
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Orwell’s manuscript for 1984 →
Chapter one excerpt: draft/published version comparison
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19 February 2012
(1) I just realised I have seen Thomas Howes (William Mason in Downton Abbey) before.. because he played Scripps in the National Theatre tour of The History Boys when I caught it in October 2007.
(2) And that I had, as a matter of fact, written about it:
27 October 2007: ” I did however, spend most of my time obsessing over how much the actor who played Scripps resembled Jim Halpert. HE...
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Watchfolkyeahlauramarling:
LM’s Hay-on-Wye gig
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“Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but...”
– Nathan Englander on creating constraints when writing (in the New Yorker)
(via agneswan)
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LOOK AT THAT SETLIST →
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i owe it to my 17 year old self to not miss the...
i will run away on a wednesday night to the hill by the old fort to watch the band from my adolescence, come what may, OT be damned
#listening to brothers on a hotel bed #my creys
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“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via bookmania)
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