January 2012
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“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what...”
– Mary Catherine Bateson, in With a daughter’s eye: a memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (1984), W. Morrow, p. 206.
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“We have turned politics into sports. National elections are reported as box...”
– A response to the state of the union address, from the West Wing president | Jed Bartlet | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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“Fathers and teachers, I ponder, «What is hell?» I maintain that it is the...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999) [1880]. The Brothers Karamazov. Constance Garnett, translator. Signet Classic. p. 312. ISBN 0451527348.
[via observando]
I think Albus Dumbledore would agree with that.
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“Your library is your portrait.”
– Holbrook Jackson (via bookshavepores)
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“In short: he isn’t a very likable man, but he isn’t supposed to be...”
– Sherlock Holmes: a case of the insufferable sod | Stephen Kelly | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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“Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When...”
– River Song in Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War (2011) – Series 6 Episode 7 - IMDb
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“Freedom is…the right to write the wrong words.”
– Patti Smith (via teachingliteracy)
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Arts Education →
visualoop:
Via IYI
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“I question why the industry is so attracted to the pre-pubescent waif to the...”
– Caryn Franklin, a former presenter of the BBC’s The Clothes Show, How damaging is child modelling? | Fashion | The Observer
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“For a couple of years, I was very excited about church. I joined up for the...”
– Louise Brealey: ‘I don’t think Molly is really Sherlock’s type’ | From the Observer | The Observer
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“Media studies courses should clear space on the syllabus for a remarkable...”
– Mark Lawson: Comparing the pilot of hit detective series Sherlock to the finished product is highly revealing | Television & radio | The Guardian
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“Anything can be addressed to a child audience – you just have to write it...”
– ‘There is a clue everybody’s missed’: Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed | Television & radio | The Guardian
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“There is a clue everybody’s missed,” he says tantalisingly....”
– ‘There is a clue everybody’s missed’: Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed | Television & radio | The Guardian
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“Good editors are really the third eye. Cool. Dispassionate. They don’t love you...”
– Toni Morrison on Editors, Interviewed by Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Elissa Schappell — Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 134, Toni Morrison
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“The good ones make all the difference. It is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if...”
– Toni Morrison on Editors, Interviewed by Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Elissa Schappell — Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 134, Toni Morrison
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“Jess is a two-dimensional caricature of the sort of girl-woman who, in real...”
– Laurie Penny on New Girl, New Statesman - New Girl: not so much a sitcom, more a new front in the war on twee
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“Weblog ist der Heimathafen um den herum du deine Aktivitäten in sozialen...”
– Perun aka Vladimir Simovic, Weblogs als Fels in der Brandung der Social Networks | WordPress & Webwork
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“Without Carroll’s secret ingredient, Alice might never have achieved her...”
– Alice In Wonderland’s Secret Ingredient: Math : NPR
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“But there is also a certain power and prestige in being the literary executor of...”
– An end to bad heir days: The posthumous power of the literary estate - Features - Books - The Independent
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“Of course, the previous argument is valid only if, like me, you have always...”
– Angela Chen (@malevichsquare), Read for the Love of Letters, Not for the Feel of Paper
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“I believe evolutionary psychology offers one of the greatest opportunities to...”
– Angela Chen (@malevichsquare), Evolutionary Facts: No Reason to Cry Rape
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“I don’t agree that Bering is a rape apologist for suggesting that being...”
– Angela Chen (@malevichsquare), Evolutionary Facts: No Reason to Cry Rape
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“Saying “I’m bored” suggests you’ve in fact seen and thought of every interesting...”
– Luke Sullivan (@heywhipple), HEY WHIPPLE » Blog Archive » Good Creative People are NEVER Bored. (or) What I learned at the “George W. Bush Presidential Li-Berry.”
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Scroll & explore Etsy.com, visually ☛ Scrollsy.com →
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“She received her last rejection letter in February 2010. Hocking says she...”
– Amanda Hocking, the writer who made millions by self-publishing online | Books | The Guardian
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“To me, the most interesting question about the whole issue is whether the kind...”
– Jason Kottke reviews Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
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“Books can steady a chair and a soul.”
– Jonathan Gourlay (@JGourlay) explores the consequences of quitting reading: In the Land of the Non-Reader « The Bygone Bureau
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Pinterest Collection ☛ For the Home by Mackenna... →
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“Bipolar disorder aka manic depression: An eternal duet between me and myself...”
– Emilie Autumn [x] (via arguewithatree)
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“No, the reason that people watch Sherlock is because of the interplay between...”
– Sherlock: it’s all about the double act | Television & radio | guardian.co.uk
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“Although we might not be able to resist the delicious temptations of the world —...”
– Jonah Lehrer, The Willpower Trick | Wired Science | Wired.com
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“Blur ended up with 26 moments approved by Fincher, then composed them into 252...”
– Oily Secrets of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s Title Sequence | Underwire | Wired.com
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“From an early age I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It’s on...”
– Edmund White, Edmund White: a life in writing | Culture | The Guardian
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“She outsmarts him TWICE- kept photos, derailed Mycroft’s plan. He...”
– @steven_moffat: Twitter / @Meunda
on Irene Adler, Sherlock series 2, A Scandal in Belgravia
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
– E. L. Doctorow, in Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 94, E. L. Doctorow, The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101
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