February 2012
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“Let’s talk about coffee. Herbal tea is okay if your name is Dandelion and your...”
– Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion (via sawaboof)
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The biggest photo of the night sky ever taken. →
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A Tree Grows in Solitude: Kurt Vonnegut's Tips for... →
tempest-at-noon:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a Sadist. No...
“The publisher’s claim that The Hobbit, though very unlike Alice, resembles it in...”
– C.S. Lewis, in an anonymous review of The Hobbit. (via heartequals)
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“ I thought ‘people of color’ and ‘colored people’ were...”
– my favorite person
naked calculus > all other types of calculus
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The rate of cigars per capita at Frank Sinatra parties is astronomical. Who woulda guessed.
Event: Frank Sinatra party
Outfit: LBD, leather jacket, mismatched socks, converse.
Drink: UV cake.
feeling like a good night.
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WatchI’d marry her in an instant. An INSTANT.
“It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (via lifelessinkuwait)
Abed: I'm strictly mechanical pencils these days
Pierce: More relatable?
butnotinlove:
Sometimes I get sad, but then I remember that Drunk Ron Swanson is a thing, and all is right with the world.
“It was February and after the temperature got up in the 30s and lifted our...”
– Prairie Home Companion - Guy Noir (via dominatrix-bananahead)
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“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a...”
– Carl Jung
(via sunflower-soul)
“Such nonsense,” declared Dr Greysteel. “Whoever heard of cats doing anything...”
– Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clark (via plenilune)
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...”
– The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (via an-old-cliche)
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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he...”
– Epicurus (via hookeronaunicorn)
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I’m writing my first short story ever right now. I managed to incorporate Shakespearean references into it. That means I win, right? I win English?
Farria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengence is Mine!"
Dantes: I do not believe in God
Farria: That does not matter, for God believes in you.