Life in Letters

"Growing up wasn’t so bad, as long as you did it with the right person."

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:54:31 +1000

“Growing up wasn’t so bad, as long as you did it with the right person.”

- Monica Alexander, Searching for Neverland (via simply-quotes)

"I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:15 +1000

““I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people’s minds and souls.””

- Sylvia Plath (via creatingaquietmind)

chloehenderson: I’m happy this photo exists.

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:56:08 +1000

chloehenderson:

I’m happy this photo exists.

Hank Green

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:20:46 +1000

Hank Green

"I began to face up to the fact that on that afternoon of 12th May I had achieved most of what I had..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:16:35 +1000

“I began to face up to the fact that on that afternoon of 12th May I had achieved most of what I had ever wanted to achieve in my life, and that I had no idea what to do with the rest of it. I was twenty-two, and the future suddenly looked blank and scary.”

- Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

How do dykes form? Hehehehehe #volcano #dykes

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:55:34 +1000

How do dykes form? Hehehehehe #volcano #dykes

wryer: lonely heart (par gentle wolves)

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:22 +1000

wryer:

lonely heart (par gentle wolves)

If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:00:40 +1000

If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can kill yourself too, but that doesn’t mean you got to stop living.
Vargus, Archie’s Final Project

"When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things."

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:26 +1000

“When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.”

- Neal Shusterman, Bruiser (via simply-quotes)

"They mean one thing to one person, another thing to another person; they are unintelligible to one..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:00:52 +1000

“They mean one thing to one person, another thing to another person; they are unintelligible to one generation, plain as a pikestaff to the next. And it is because of this complexity that they survive. Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing to-day is that we refuse words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning, the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination. And when words are pinned down they fold their wings and die.”

- Virginia Woolf on words. (via explore-blog)

"It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:00:46 +1000

“It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky’s syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.”

- John Searle (via victoriousvocabulary)

"Good writers have two things in common: they would rather be understood than admired, and they do..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:00:44 +1000

“Good writers have two things in common: they would rather be understood than admired, and they do not write for hairsplitting and hypercritical readers.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche (via writingquotes)

"If there’s anything going on about time in my novels it’s really a spinoff of some other concern...."

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:00:34 +1000

“If there’s anything going on about time in my novels it’s really a spinoff of some other concern. Something to do with the fine print of consciousness itself. I mean, I’m interested in how to represent, obviously in a very stylized way, what it’s like to be thinking. Or what it’s like to be conscious, or sentient, or, fatally, only half-sentient. And how difficult it is to see Everything that’s going on and understand everything at one time and how much our recollections can play into what we accept as reality—how much perception is distorted by will. That’s something I find very interesting. The ways in which we convince ourselves, persuade ourselves of things, either to settle some notion of our own or an intellectual position.”

- Ian McEwan echoes what science has already told us about the fallibility of our memory. (via explore-blog)

May to be read pile #tbr #books #may

Sun, 12 May 2013 01:48:26 +1000

May to be read pile #tbr #books #may

Photo

Sat, 11 May 2013 20:00:41 +1000

"I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:00:26 +1000

“I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!”

- Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoevsky

(via literarylust)

myampgoesto11: Crocheted wire sculptures by Ruth Asawa

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:00:29 +1000

myampgoesto11:

Crocheted wire sculptures by Ruth Asawa

"I don’t know about lying for novelists. I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:00:19 +1000

““I don’t know about lying for novelists. I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they’re telling the truth. The fact is they’re using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they’re telling the truth about the human being—what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.””

- Maya Angelou (via theparisreview)

“There’s a man called the Doctor who lives on a cloud in the...

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:47:18 +1000

“There’s a man called the Doctor who lives on a cloud in the sky and he keeps the bad dreams away. But he lost all his friends and now he is so very lonely.”

Photo

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:03:58 +1000