December 2011
186 posts
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
—John Mason (submitted by my-candy-jar)
“You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert (via laceofpearls)
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
—Søren Kierkegaard (via misswallflower)
“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair, the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page”
—Stephen King (via wordpainting)
“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
—Ernst Fischer (via nathanielstuart)
End of Year Countdown: 5 Top Fives →
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My top five favorite books, blogs, posts and more of 2011.
“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.”
—Ray Bradbury (via pavorst)
“It is impossible to live without failing at something. Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
—J.K. Rowling (submitted by lostinthisdisguise)
