December 2009
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“In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there...”
– (via iwannotowidigdo)
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a...”
– -Marcus Tullius Cicero (43 BCE)
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“Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if...”
– Hermann Hesse in Gertrude (1910) (via predatorywaspobserver)
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“I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed...”
– from The Black Riders by Stephen Crane (via Poetry Daily) (via arsvitaest)
“I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via smellslikesunshine) (via booklover)
“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of—please...”
– (via iwannotowidigdo)
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all...”
– Donna Tartt, The Secret History (via psychotherapy) (via leilanilujan)
“Writing a book is a horrible,exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some...”
– George Orwell (via booklover) (via owlswallowvowels)
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...”
– Cyril Connolly (via ilovereadingandwriting)
McSweeney's: Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and... →
savingpaper:
If you think this is just a funny little joke, take it from me: this is how my students would have me grade them if it were left up to them:
Evaluation: Students will be graded on the RBBEAW* system, developed to assess and score students based on their own relative merit.
A+ = 100—90 A = 89—80 A- = 79—70 A- - = 69—60 A- - - = 59—50 A- - - - = 49—0
* Raised by Boomers,...
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