January 2011
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Oh, dear.
My only thought is that you know.
But that’s ridiculous.
But how could you not know? It’s been a day and a half, and I haven’t heard anything from you. It must be because you found out I facebook stalked you, googled you, looked at your linkedin profile. I’ve got intimate details about you (I was only supposed to learn after we got coffee and brushed shoes like...
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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
– Edgar Degas
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“They’re not gay cowboys! They’re bisexual sheep herders!”
– girl in my English class (re: Brokeback Mountain)
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“la pluma es lengua del alma.”
– miguel de cervantes (via thinkphrenetic)
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Mamihlapinatapai
is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that they both desire but which neither one wants to start.”
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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing the Short...
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and...
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