January 2009
30 most satisfying simple pleasures
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1. Sleeping In on a Rainy Day
2. Finding Money You Didn’t Know You Had
3. Making Brief Eye Contact with Someone of the Opposite Sex
4. Skinny Dipping
5. Making the Yellow Light
6. Telling a Funny or Interesting, True Story
7. Seeing a Friend Stumble Over Himself
8. Hearing the Right Song at the Right Moment
9. The First Sip of a Beverage When You’re Thirsty
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“I am going to give you a piece of advice…advice I wish I’d been told in guidance...”
– Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland (via aodouls) (via breathsoftruth) (via samanthacaroline) (via tuesdayslove) (via unicornology)
I'm not going to lie:
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I like songs that break my heart, threaten to rip it out and smash it on the floor, songs that make me shed a tear or two, songs that make me feel something real, songs that make me have to immediately find more of the artist’s music, songs that make me want to scream the lyrics off a mountaintop. I love them. I just love them.
“I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I...”
– Truman Capote (via sandysays) (via sundaymorning) (via babydeer) (via bravery) (via kindteeth)
1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive... →
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Apparently, I’ve only read 23 (and a half) of the books on this list. I’m horrified.
I managed 38; there’s an enormous pile of mentioned books that are lying around my room half-read, stacked up next to my to-read pile. That doesn’t excuse the fact that of the number of books from this list that I’ve completely read I only managed double digits, oh poo
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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing Fiction.
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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...
“I couldn’t find the word for what I felt. It is clearly not true that without...”
– Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (via voffvoff) (via flourhoneymilk)
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