August 2011
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Nothing about art is a waste of time. ‘It’s the time wasting that...
– Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
Career planning questions..
If there were no limitations, what job would you do? - I’d be a writer or an astronaut, a time traveller or a teacher at Hogwarts.
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Graffiti Moon
I’m already in love with a book I haven’t finished yet.
Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
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Can trace small hands that grow entwined -
and rest in thoughts held here.
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The past few days have been draining but I’ve realised a few things:
- I’m really lucky that my dad was there for my mum the first time she became sick. I was 11 and didn’t really understand what was happening. I escaped into books.
- I’m finishing this semester of university based on this need to finish something. Writing is the most frustrating thing in the world but I...
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I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear...
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and...
– Andy Warhol, as quoted in Andy Warhol: In His Own Words (via newanddifferentsun)
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The heart that
breaks open can
contain the
whole universe.
– Joanna Macy (via awakeinthedream)
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Okay, I might of cackled a little when I read about what a copywriter actually does - All I could imagine was the rampant sexism, the smoking, the falling logo and of course, Don Draper from Mad Men. I really need to shake that image out of my head if I decide on that course..
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Close to midnight, when the heart bows from the stem, wait for its first dew. It...
– Merlinda Bobis, Banana Heart Summer
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gaksdesigns:
(If Harry Potter was an Anime.)
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the...
– Jan Morris (via prettybooks)
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I just want to curl up in a world of music and books and not come out. Sigh.
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Reading on Trains
Reading makes the spaces between places bearable. I love fantasy but fell into reading Murakami’s books in high school. Contemporary fiction with a surrealist edge to them. Many of his characters are isolated in their own way. I don’t read too much of his work in one go because it makes me feel melancholic. I think YA can be just as dark as adult fiction but more hopeful in some ways....
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The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos...
– The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (via purplenailpolish)
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And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the...
– Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
– Margaret Atwood (via wordpainting)