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Posted on Tuesday March 22nd 2011 at 10:16pm. Its tags are listed below.

“You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to A Young Poet

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Posted on Monday September 20th 2010 at 10:34am. Its tags are listed below.

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Posted on Sunday September 19th 2010 at 01:00pm. Its tags are listed below.

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Posted on Tuesday September 7th 2010 at 11:35pm. Its tags are listed below.

“[Stories are] a way by which the mind uses fantasy to structure the chaos of the original experience. Complex and unpredictable, the vivid experience always lacks what fiction can provide: a closed time, a hierarchy of events, the value of people, effects and causes, the connections under the actions.”
Mario Vargas Llosa, “The True Lies” via Red Burns Applications class, ITP 2010

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Posted on Tuesday September 7th 2010 at 06:30am. Its tags are listed below.

“Writing is, for most, laborious and slow. The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by.”
William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, “The Elements of Style”

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Posted on Monday September 6th 2010 at 04:48am. Its tags are listed below.

“And so now you will begin to work at your writing. Remember these things. Work with all your intelligence and love. Work freely and rollickingly as though they were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.”
Brenda Ueland

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Posted on Monday August 30th 2010 at 12:00pm. Its tags are listed below.

“On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. It is this largess that accounts for the presence within the city’s walls of a considerable section of the population; for the residents of Manhattan are to a large extent strangers who have pulled up stakes somewhere and come to town, seeking sanctuary or fulfillment or some greater or lesser grail. The capacity to make such dubious gifts is a mysterious quality of New York. It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.”
~E. B. White, Here is New York

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Posted on Monday August 30th 2010 at 08:00am. Its tags are listed below.

“I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention and perseverance you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.”
Julian Green, Paris
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