March 2012
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“From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew...”
– George Orwell, Why I Write (via fortuneandglory)
February 2012
20 posts
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank...”
– Neil Gaiman: On Writing (via fortuneandglory)
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“It’s sort of a touching response to a $1.2 trillion deficit, isn’t it? That...”
– Warren Buffett mocks Gov. Christie’s ‘write a check and shut up’ remark (The Hill)
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“When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it.”
– Humphrey Bogary as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (via fortuneandglory)
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“I am a librarian. I discovered ‘me’ in the library. I went to find ‘me’ in the...”
– Ray Bradbury (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“It was too big for him, that was the truth. It had never really progressed, it...”
– George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Anyone who has poured their soul and years of their time into writing a novel can probably relate to Orwell’s idealistic Gordon Comstock.
(via fortuneandglory)
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“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If...”
– Charles Bukowski, Women (via fortuneandglory)
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (via stick-it-to-the-math)
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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once...”
– Bertrand Russell (via blithley-insane)
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“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If...”
– Charles Bukowski, Women (via fortuneandglory)
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“What was the Lorax? And why was it there? And why was it lifted and taken...”
– Dr. Seuss, The Lorax (via dr—seuss)
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“The art of storytelling has remained unchanged. And for the most part, the...”
– Joe Sabia’s TED talk on Storytelling (via myepeolatry)
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“It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some...”
– Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World (via fortuneandglory)
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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via cine-camera)
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized any way.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via elleninstereo)
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“Well-educated people also possess an enlarged capacity for independent thought....”
– My former English professor and drinking friend brilliantly tears apart Governor Corbett’s proposed slashes to higher education in Pennsylvania’s latest budget. (via fortuneandglory)
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The Book of Tumblr Returns: Click here to download... →
fortuneandglory:
theonlybook:
It may have seemed like a long hiatus (because it was), but this project is far from complete. Read the first 30 pages of Tumblr’s very first user-created novel - written by ten different Tumblr users, who each had no idea where the others would be taking the story - by clicking on the link above. Right here is also a story overview of each character in the story...