May 2012
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“I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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“Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you...”
– -Aaron Sorkin, Syracuse Commencement May 2012 (link)
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“walking down a street in new york with my kids and it’s warm but not hot...”
– Louis C.K. on his favorite part of a normal day.
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We make our choices, and we live with them. And in the end, we are those choices.
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“It really was such a shame, the way you could be so careful, and for so long,...”
– Johanna Skibsrud, This Will Be Difficult to Explain: And Other Stories
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“It is not so much a question of forgetting Peeta as remembering the others.”
– Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
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“My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.”
– George Bernard Shaw, You Never Can Tell
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For When I Don't Feel Like Going To The Gym.
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I took a guess and cut a portion out of my heart
He said that’s nowhere close enough but it’s a damn good start
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“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough.
Sometimes you have to...”
– Donald Trump
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Why did I think going to bed early and taking a bath was the worst thing growing up when as an adult it’s all I want? What is this life?
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I’m losing control of my life.
April 2012
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“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”
– George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot
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Smee: Like I said Cap’n, the ice is melting, the sun is out, and the flowers are all in bloom.
Hook: He's back.
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“It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether,...”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Letter to his brother Frank (14 October 1929)
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Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
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“If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, on Censorship
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Lessons for writing, by C.S. Lewis
What really matters is:– 1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else. 2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them. 3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say...
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