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Funnier than I'd imagined it to be. Also, having read it I am now incredibly self-conscious about the way I'm writing. Awkward. Anyway, the rules Strunk laid out were pretty concise and had helpful elaborations. Many of them felt like common sense tip...more |
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Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know about What Editors Do
by Gerald C. Gross
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So I had to buy this book for an editing class. We were supposed to read it a little bit at a time, but it was so fascinating that I couldn't put it down. The world of editing is not what I had imagined, but it's a very vivid place. Anyone who wan...
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“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 now 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
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
IB World Lit Paper (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Sep 23, 2010 10:22am
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I would put my statement of intent here, but it was long and pretentious. Basically, the point is to re-tell the conclusion of <i>The Stranger</i> from the chaplain's perspective. And thereby demonstrate society's tragic inability to understand Meursault. Kind of.
"Writing for Flavor and Effect" (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters
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English is silly.
Yin and Yang (History)
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:32pm
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Every dystopia has the same ending. I wrote one when I was a freshman. YAAY!
P.S. Her name is "Shelly" because she's a wasted shell of a human being. Because she lives in a dystopia. And I'm subtle.
John Green.
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