Posts Tagged ‘Creative Writing at Longwood’
A Thousand Rebellions
A little old school hxc for ya 5 days ago by outlawpoet. “If we just look, inside each of us a thousand rebellions sleep.” -From “Chorus of One” by Richmond, VA’s own Strike Anywhere
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On Becoming Great
Words To Remember Over The Holidays 1 hour ago by alexodom. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
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A bit of reality about Twilight
My thoughts exactly… 4 days ago by metatraveller. http://community.feministing.com/2008/07/misgonmy-in-popular-teen-liter.html “ Once Edward and Bella get together, Bella is completely dependent upon him. He becomes her entire life. Bella has no friends outside of Edward. The few people she talks to are so few and far between, they hardly count. The closes thing Bella has to […]
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Photos to Words
From Photos to Words “The way I understand it, a photographer’s relationship to his medium is responsible for his relationship to the world is responsible for his relationship to his medium.” —–Garry Winogrand
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From Glints of Light Rescue by Jason Shinder When the doctor inserts his two fingers into my mother rectum, the pupils of her eyes move like blue-fish under the ice in a bucket before they are carried away. I am climbing out of a well and offering her some water. I am picking up her […]
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Hemingway on War
From Weaving Olden Dances From Ernest Hemingway “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
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Howards End and Umbrellas
Howards End 4 days ago by trojanmanman. All men are created equal–all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.–Leonard Bast
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Marriage 3 days ago by metatraveller. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Nietzsche
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A Soundless Echo
From Not Without Dust and Heat from Beryl Markham’s West With the Night There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, […]
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From Philomont Advice from Elton John “I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. “
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