Rabolas's Blog: at sixes and sevens, page 44

undr:John Bulmer. Woman and a cat walk through a cemetery in...

undr:

John Bulmer. Woman and a cat walk through a cemetery in Wakefield West Yorkshire. 1964

"How am I ever to apologize to myself sufficiently?"

“How am I ever to apologize to myself sufficiently?”

- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. November 1931 in “Selected Diaries,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Quick Plotting Tip: Write Your Story Backwards

theliteraryarchitect:

If you have a difficult time plotting, try writing or outlining your story backwards—from the end to the beginning. Writers who have a difficult time outlining, plotting, and planning their stories often benefit from this technique. You’ll need a general idea of what your story is about for this to work, and of course you need to know the ending, but you might be amazed how helpful this trick can be.

Why is writing backwards easier? Basically, instead of answering the ques...

kelseylorene: The Wende Library. Los Angeles, California.

kelseylorene:

The Wende Library. Los Angeles, California. 

"Oggi primo giorno di scuola. Passarono come un sogno quei tre mesi di vacanza in campagna! Mia madre..."

"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it..."

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that.”

- Robin Williams (via quotemadness)

"Develop a sense of self. A solidness that can’t be attacked."

“Develop a sense of self. A solidness that can’t be attacked.”

- Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)

iosonorockmaballoiltango: Di chi e di cosa, infatti, posso dire: “Io lo conosco!”? Questo cuore, che...

iosonorockmaballoiltango:

Di chi e di cosa, infatti, posso dire: “Io lo conosco!”? Questo cuore, che è in me, lo posso sentire e ne argomento che esiste. Questo mondo, posso toccarlo, e giudico di nuovo che esiste. Ma qui si ferma tutta la mia scienza, e il resto è costruzione. Se tento, infatti, di afferrare questo io di cui sono certo, se cerco di definirlo e compendiarlo, esso non è più che acqua che scorre fra le mie dita. Posso disegnare ad uno ad uno tutti i volti che sa assumere, e anch...

"There is a knife which I do not forget."

“There is a knife which I do not forget.”

- Antonin Artaud, tr. by Helen Weaver, from “Manifesto in Clear Language,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers..."

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

- Isaac Asimov (via quotemadness)