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My essay "Farzad, Son of Glory," is on the list of Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2011! This is pretty exciting, because when I started with creative writing a few years ago, that was a goal I had in mind for some misty far-off future era when I'd have toiled long and hard in the salt mines of literary exertion. I clearly have lots more toiling and literary exerting to do, but still, th...
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A Lost Argument
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Fantastic. I love Borges, and I enjoyed Peck's "The Scholar of Moab," so I went in with high expectations for this novella about a man's experience in the library hell created by Borges in "The Library of Babel."
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Wow! Another amazing Brandon Sanderson novel! This novel was not as complex and intricate as The Way of Kings, but it was still amazing! Sanderson has created an unbelievable fantasy world and obviously put a ton of time and energy into every aspe...
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"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
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| A beautiful annotated edition of the fairy tales containing twelve of Andersen's most popular stories for children plus twelve more stories for adults. Includes "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match-Girl," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Princess and the...more | |
"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more."
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Robert A. Heinlein
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“Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.”
― Therese Doucet, A Lost Argument
― Therese Doucet, A Lost Argument
“I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to erase in myself the easy explanations, the always mendacious explanations about why things happen the way they do, and in this way, come to know the mystery of being–-not by any approximation in thought, but by being. I want to be and not be ashamed of being.”
― Therese Doucet, A Lost Argument
― Therese Doucet, A Lost Argument
“Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.”
― Therese Doucet
― Therese Doucet
“As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.”
― Honoré de Balzac
― Honoré de Balzac
“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way.
Such was Momo's talent for listening.”
― Michael Ende
Such was Momo's talent for listening.”
― Michael Ende
“Split second glimpses into souls are all I have managed to find.”
― Soren Narnia, Tyrant, Draw Thy Sword
― Soren Narnia, Tyrant, Draw Thy Sword
“The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“No sex?" He looked at me in disbelief. "Well if you can't have ze sex, what can you do?"
For the sake of simplicity I took my left arm and lined it up just under my collarbones. "Nothing below here," I said. I took my right arm and lined it up to my knees. "Nothing above here."
"What about your armpit?" he asked. "Can your boyfriend do anything he wants to your armpit?"
I thought about it. Armpits seemed pretty harmless. "Yeah," I said optimistically. "My boyfriend can do anything he wants to my armpit."
"This is good," the Frenchman said. "He can stick his penis in and out of your armpit, and if you grow hair there it is almost like vagine."
Is it too late to change my answer? I wondered, pulling a cardigan over my bare shoulders and covering any hint of an invitation.”
― Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
For the sake of simplicity I took my left arm and lined it up just under my collarbones. "Nothing below here," I said. I took my right arm and lined it up to my knees. "Nothing above here."
"What about your armpit?" he asked. "Can your boyfriend do anything he wants to your armpit?"
I thought about it. Armpits seemed pretty harmless. "Yeah," I said optimistically. "My boyfriend can do anything he wants to my armpit."
"This is good," the Frenchman said. "He can stick his penis in and out of your armpit, and if you grow hair there it is almost like vagine."
Is it too late to change my answer? I wondered, pulling a cardigan over my bare shoulders and covering any hint of an invitation.”
― Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
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