December 2011
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Smoke Without Fire by Duffy
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Sometimes I get so sad. I’m not going to say “enveloped” or “swallowed” or “swept over” with sadness because I think it’s very apparent that my entire being sags with grief when I remember I did not attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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Books I loved in 2011:
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The Hunger Games trilogy
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her...
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It’s midnight and I have two very important tasks to complete:
Write a few more pages of my short story
Read more of the delightful children’s novel I am obsessed with
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Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash
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“‘When you are born,’ the golem said softly, ‘your courage is...”
– The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente
To put things not so eloquently: Fuck you.
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anais Nin (via katelizabeth)
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Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland,...
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“The Leopard of Little Breezes yawned up and farther off from the rooftops of...”
– The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente
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“If she tells you how she wishes she were closer to her sister and that her dad...”
– Pasha Malla
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I would love for Love to be as tangible as my fingernails and as visible as my knees. And while I see this fragment of what I perceive to be Love dancing pirouettes in front of me, I cannot imagine a fellow looking at me with raised eye brows and a sly grin. I cannot picture someone holding me tight and me wanting to be held by him. It is so odd, how two people can meet and be together forever...
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Brimborion (n) - A useless or valueless object.
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“Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the...”
– Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
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Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
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“I’m afraid of needles.
I’m tired of rubber sheets and tubes....”
– “Old” by Anne Sexton
My writing and self and mind almost always feel overbearingly inadequate.
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“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
– George Eliot, Middlemarch (via pavorst)
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“Never use the word suddenly just to create tension.
-Writing Fiction
...”
– Tension by Billy Collins (via noeud-papillon-)
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My father is in the film business yet he told me today that the only reason I want to be in it is because it “seems cool”. Thanks Dad.
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clavicola:
Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire by...
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“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett (via atomos)
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An Extensive List of Things to Be Completed on December Nineteenth:
Write rough draft of poems for SAWA
Wrap presents
Send college evaluation requests to teachers
Finish NYU application
Write flash fiction rough draft for SAWA
Begin rough draft of second short story for SAWA
Mail form and check for first entry to SAWA
Complete a Nike Training workout
Watch Animal Kingdom
Send six Tea...
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“I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of...”
– Lois Lowry
Things I tell myself daily:
“I will finish The Sun Also Rises today”
“I will watch Animal Kingdom and send it back to Netflix”
“I will write those poems for that contest”
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“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word...”
– Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude (via pavorst)
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America’s Son by Air Review
Why was I even allowed out in public between sixth grade and eleventh grade?
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“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people...”
– Paulo Coelho (via absentheart)
