Just another writer
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Divagate
I’m always conscious of the words that appear in the books I read, looking for those words which I don’t know. I’ve had the word “divagate” in my list of interesting words for a while, long enough that I forget where it came from. I found two definitions for the word. A literal meaning of…
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Beautiful Sentences
Gabriel looks back at him from the mirror, the man he’s made, and made his own, the man whose grief drinks from his own grief, whose joy eats his joy, but whom he uses, over and over, to escape his grief and joy, to make them commodity, currency. For better or for worse—he doesn’t know—to make…
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Books and film. Music. These are the things we obsess over so we don’t have to deal with real life. Kris D’Agostino, The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac.
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These were just folks, making a living, talented, brave, hungry, mischievous, petty, kind, gentle, good, mean, evil, silly, serious, tired, hopeful, scared, longing, confused, arrogant, jealous, wise: the human condition in all its frail and glorious fuckery. Connie May Fowler, How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly.
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There are times when we pursue temptations which we know full well to be unworthy, for the sole and passionate purpose of being pulled out of realms in which we have dwelled far too long. Lawrence Sutin, When to go into the Water.
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I’m trying to say that you have to risk being scared again. Isn’t that what you told that room full of wannabe writers the day we met? That writing wasn’t for the faint of heart? That it was scary and it hurt and it welled up from the most dangerous and injured placed in our…
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Beautiful Sentences
Flotsam consists in all natural matter that floats upon the ocean. Jetsam consists in all manmade matter that floats upon the ocean. What then is a human corpse? And were I to slip myself over the side of the ship, would I possess the courage to let myself drown as flotsam drowns—nature blissfully sinking into…
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Truth
Something has been bothering me for a while. I’ve found in discussions with my friends who are Republican there is a disturbing willingness to believe things which, quite plainly are not true. And by this, I don’t mean things that are debatable, whether legitimately, as in the case of Keynes vs Hayek in economic theorizing,…
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Why do the spaces look smaller than the words that used to fill them? Abby Frucht, Polly’s Ghost.