August 2009
11 posts
Averted Vision By Tim Kreider (Excerpt)
…I suspect there is something inherently misguided and self-defeating and hopeless about any deliberate campaign to achieve happiness. Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool’s errand, is that happiness isn’t a goal in itself but is only an aftereffect. It’s the consequence of having lived in the way that we’re supposed to —...
July 2009
122 posts
“It’s one of the things writing students don’t understand. They write a first...”
– Elizabeth Hardwick (via ilovereadingandwriting)
“Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in...”
– E.B. White
“I’m going nowhere but I’m guaranteed to be late!”
– ~ Modest Mouse
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White (via littlemiss)
“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings...”
– Mark Twain (via booksbooksbooks)
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