May 2013
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April 2013
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“What is most valuable to know is not where to look for a particular idea, but...”
– James Webb Young, A Technique for Producing Ideas (1939)
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March 2013
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“The sun is new every day, the ancient philosopher Heraclitus said. The sun of...”
– James Dickey
(via Brain Pickings)
“It is not easy to leave one self and embrace another. Your freedoms will scar...”
– Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water (via suburbanskyline)
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February 2013
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Science
Science is a pattern for understanding patterns so that we can build better patterns to discover novel patterns that better define the pattern of science.
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“You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It...”
– Comedian Ricky Gervais adds to our archive of sage advice with a nod to the value of finding your purpose in this Esquire interview
(↬ Quipsologies)
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“What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird; on shitty first drafts.
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“Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it....”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird; on shitty first drafts.
January 2013
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Circadian Cadence
Rain-slicked reflections of the sun’s last offerings disperse within the por- ous asphalt, inducing a faint chorus of tire- spun splashes fading-in and out behind impa- tient honks, like waves against a cargo ship announc- ing itself to the docks, “I have arrived! I have arrived!” The workers, their jackets waxing iri- descent limes and oranges, wave in the freight, crane up...
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“Rule 1 is The Gosling Rule. The story concerns the first thing the reader sees...”
– Padgett Powell, interview for The Believer
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