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"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via thatkindofwoman)(Source: arpeggia, via thatkindofwoman)
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High ResolutionWords are powerful.
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High ResolutionWhy Iron Man 3’s Director Ruled Hollywood — Vulture
I want to take a screenplay writing class from this guy. Gold. Everything he wrote was gold.
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"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me."
- Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (1973)(Source: larmoyante, via lecoeurentrevosdents)
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High Resolution(Source: langleav.com, via im-thinking)
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On Writing Shit.
What do diarrhea and writing well have in common?
Apart from feeling terrible in both situations, the best way to get over diarrhea and writing well is to just let all the bad shit out.
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I am enchanted with this.
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On Writing Well.
I’m just going to get straight to the point:
Writing well is fucking hard.
I struggle with it. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. At least my livelihood doesn’t depend on it… oh wait, I’m a copywriter.
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Warsan Shire - “For Women Who Are Difficult To Love” (by MovingOn & StereoOpticon)
you tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do love
split his head open?
you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.(via Slow Like Honey)
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"I’m often asked for advice on how to become a better graphic designer, and this is my response: “Two things — learn how to do crossword puzzles, and learn how to write."
- Chip Kidd -
Writers on writing for SharedWorlds 2013. Pictured: Scott Eagle’s hand.
(via sho & tell)
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Faceless, nameless, unforgettable
You know those relatively mundane moments that you remember forever? The right friends, the right music, the right lighting, the right temperature: suddenly there’s this moment that you know you’ll never forget. It’s not a rush of fear or adrenaline, it’s not an event or circumstance, it’s just a moment that somehow wrote itself to your permanent storage.
It’s when the band goes into the breakdown and the lights go blue. The venue is just quiet enough to yell something in your friend’s ear before you feel the beat start to pick up, and then it happens: the blinders come on in their amber glory and you’re flooded with the sound. Everyone else disappears and the fatigue of standing through the opening act just fades away.
It’s that moment when you were standing next to the picnic table and the portable stereo was playing something danceable but not particularly memorable. It’s hard to remember who was there, but the setting sun and the smell of the campfire and lingering firework smoke was just right; the memory is seared into your brain as a combination of visual, olfactory and audio sensations.
It doesn’t really matter when or where, even who. It doesn’t matter if I took a picture, tweeted it or told anybody about it. Without faces, without names, these are the memories that will keep me warm when everything else grows cold.
- Brett Terpstra
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"A good writer should know as near everything as possible. Naturally he will not. A great enough writer seems to be born with knowledge. But he really is not; he has only been born with the ability to learn in a quicker ratio to the passage of time than other men and without conscious application, and with an intelligence to accept or reject what is already presented as knowledge. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from."
-Ernest Hemingway on knowledge, writing, and legacy.
(via Brain Pickings)
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"Calling the overall human experience “poignant,” “thought-provoking,” and a “complete tour de force,” film critic Roger Ebert praised existence Thursday as “an audacious and thrilling triumph.” “While not without its flaws, life, from birth to death, is a masterwork, and an uplifting journey that both touches the heart and challenges the mind,” said Ebert, adding that while the totality of all humankind is sometimes “a mess in places,” it strives to be a magnum opus and, according to Ebert, largely succeeds at this goal. “At times brutally sad, yet surprisingly funny, and always completely honest, I wholeheartedly recommend existence. If you haven’t experienced it yet, then what are you waiting for? It is not to be missed.” Ebert later said that while human existence’s running time was “a little on the long side,” it could have gone on much, much longer and he would have been perfectly happy."
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High Resolution
Favorite Things
Twenty-something.
Atlanta.
Hedonist.
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