Posts Tagged ‘Nonfiction’
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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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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Armadillo Alex
From Like Ships Run Ashore (We Move) I’ve been doing research for a non-fiction piece, and this is by far my favorite piece I have found. Armadillo in Cream Sauce Two lbs. armadillo meat One 1/4 cups dry white wine 1/2 cup oil 2 garlic cloves, crushed (optional) 1/4 cup butter Salt and pepper to […]
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From Stephaniemc Time to Kill “You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.” -pink floyd
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