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aim-for-yourself: I’m in Heaven. Library of Alnwick Castle...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:55 -0300

aim-for-yourself:

I’m in Heaven.

Library of Alnwick Castle [some of you might know it as Hogwarts], Northumberland.

samorchard: I did a comic about marriage...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:58:47 -0300

samorchard:

I did a comic about marriage equality…

(Original: http://www.roostertailscomic.com/?p=1588)

tommilsom: oh man the original is actually even better

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:55:38 -0300

tommilsom:

oh man the original is actually even better

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:55:30 -0300

"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:54:48 -0300

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.”

- Bill Watterson (via mikekarnell)

explore-blog: The Russian-born novelist’s writing habits were...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:53:01 -0300

explore-blog:

The Russian-born novelist’s writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which he stored in long file boxes. Since, Nabokov claimed, he pictured an entire novel in complete form before he began writing it, this method allowed him to compose passages out of sequence, in whatever order he pleased; by shuffling the cards around, he could quickly rearrange paragraphs, chapters, and whole swaths of the book. (His file box also served as portable desk; he started the first draft of Lolita on a road trip across America, working nights in the backseat of his parked car — the only place in the country, he said, with no noise and no drafts.) Only after months of this labor did he finally relinquish the cards to his wife, Vera, for a typed draft, which would then undergo several more rounds of revisions.

Nabokov’s curious daily rituals

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:52:39 -0300

keepcalmandstaywonderful:

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:50:48 -0300

keepcalmandstaywonderful:

ohmeganisaraw: Joseph Lorusso, Soft Eyes

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:49:38 -0300

ohmeganisaraw:

Joseph Lorusso, Soft Eyes

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:49:06 -0300

mabelchiltern: THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL “The great American...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:48:53 -0300

mabelchiltern:

THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL

“The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.” - W. Somerset Maugham

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:45:53 -0300

jon/ygritte uni au because i can’t draw anything but aus

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:33:53 -0300

jon/ygritte uni au because i can’t draw anything but aus

jolieing: Claude Monet’s Water Lilies in “Midnight in Paris”

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:33:13 -0300

jolieing:

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies in “Midnight in Paris”

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Mon, 20 May 2013 22:49:51 -0300

me on every first day of school

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:48:35 -0300

me on every first day of school

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Mon, 20 May 2013 22:43:04 -0300

callmetonks: So true though

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:42:37 -0300

callmetonks:

So true though

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Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:26 -0300

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Mon, 20 May 2013 22:40:39 -0300