Month: September 2013
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Quote: G. K. Chesterton
“Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.”
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She Doesn’t Have a Brother (A short story)
“So, tell me, what did she look like?” my brother said. I pulled a chair for him and helped him sit down. I placed the books on the coffee table and took my seat. “Well,” I said. My brother met her a few months ago at the Foundation. Both of them are volunteers there. She…
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Quote: C. S. Lewis
“I didn’t go to religion to make me “happy.” I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
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Quote: Anne Bernays
“I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.”
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Quote: Andrea Cremer
“Writing is a craft. It’s a lot of work and your writing is always evolving. If you want to be a better writer, you must write more and read often.”
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Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person’d God by John Donne (The Poetry Foundation)
Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp’d town to another due, Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end; Reason,…
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The Band (A short story)
“This is too much,” I said. Zach turned around and looked at us, and then he began jerking the stroller forward, signaling me to start moving. “Okay, baby, we’re going to change your diaper now. Do you feel uncomfortable?” May said, stroking his back. Zach kept jerking the stroller. We started walking. In no time,…
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Quote: D. H. Lawrence
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”
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Quote: Anne Fadiman
“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”