May 31, 2008
“And what he really thought was that the rule was pasted on to the writing after the writing was all done….And he became convinced that all the writers the students were supposed to mimic wrote without rules, putting down whatever sounded right, then going back to see if it still sounded right and changing it if it didn’t.”
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Posted by thelitlife
May 31, 2008
“If, however, we measure success in terms of structural change,…success is a process rather than an outcome, necessary to aspire to, not readily achieved.”
-”Life at the Crossroads”
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Posted by thelitlife
May 31, 2008
“All I want you to do is be more like me and be less like you.”
- Numb
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Posted by marginal prose
May 31, 2008
“I couldn’t resist the temptation to tease Pyle it is after all the weapon of weakness and I was weak.”
- The Quiet American
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Posted by marginal prose
May 30, 2008
**Guest Post**
Not a whit, we defy augury; there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes? Let be.
-Hamlet
**Thanks to JTD**
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