Posts Tagged ‘Fiction’
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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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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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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Sympathy for Emma Goldman
From the Outlaw Poet “Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.” -Mick Jagger
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Peter Straub on his fantasy job
From Metatraveller Peter Straub “Since my fantasy job is identical to the job I have, I have to answer that question in this way: Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that […]
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What the Skater Saw in Joyce
From Quez Don’t Sleep: “God is just a shout in the street.”-Stephen Dedalus, from Jame’s Joyce’s Ulysses
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