December 2011
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“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary...”
– William Shakespeare (via talkativolive)
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FUCK YEAH NEW YEAR’S POST *Insert crazy guitar intro*
So this years been pretty great for me. Started out awful, I was in a constant state of doubt, regret and low self-esteem. I’d spend every other week thinking I’d found the answer that I was looking for, before being slapped in the face by a turn of events. It took me, I think, an operation to give me a rope to get out...
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Religion and God
This subject been flying all over my brain for the past few months. Mostly because we’re doing “the idea of god” in Philosophy, but I’ve spent most of my free thinking time just going through my religious ideals again and again, searching for the answer that not only fits me, but one that I can truly believe in as well. Just to be clear, these are my thoughts. If you...
marchingbacktoreasons asked: When I first 'read my jam' I saw a slice of my soul slightly burnt, spreaded on with some butter and my blood. It was served on a silver platter, abandoned by the busy side walk of the city. Free for anyone to take. When I first 'read my jam' I thought of the first prose I wrote, the first song I sang and the first melody I jammed to. I heard the me I hadn't heard for a...
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every...”
– WILLIAM DEMENT, Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1959 (via thoughtfuldissent)
“…music discloses to man an unknown realm, a world that has nothing in common...”
– E.T.A. Hoffman (via talkativolive)
“…never be afraid, never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and...”
– William Faulkner to a class of graduating seniors at University High School in Mississippi (via talkativolive)
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“… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova (via waitingforteaagain)
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via fanttasia)
“Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde (via doubleedgedminds)
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Reality Obscure: Eight Rules for Writing Fiction: →
tumblrfiction:
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…
Totally agree with everyone except 4 - description is also needed, some of my...
