May 2010
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to...”
– Anne Frank
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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the...”
– Mark Twain (via deadwriters)
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CNN: Anne Frank's Tree Dying →
This is a story about a girl and her tree — a tree that helped keep hope alive, even as the world closed in on her.
Three times in Anne Frank’s widely read diary, the young Holocaust victim wrote about a tree. She could see it from the attic window of the secret annex where her family hid for two years, before being betrayed.
“From my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the...
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The Valentino Achak Deng Foundation Website →
The Valentino Achak Deng Foundation is a US-based nonprofit organization working to increase access to education in post-conflict Southern Sudan by building schools, libraries, teacher-training institutes, and community centers.
You can donate to the website at various amounts. $9 gives a girl school supplies; $30 buys a student a full set of textbooks; $300 gives a girl a scholarship for one...
April 2010
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“Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.”
– Charlotte Bronte, Villette (via hereidreamtiwasablogger) (via holycrapbooks) (via thebrontes)
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“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the...”
– Salma Hayek (via kari-shma) (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
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“It’s important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations...”
– Anna Quindlen (via bearbearpdx) (via missworld)
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“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to...”
– Charlotte Brontë
from this nytimes article on the stigmatization of happiness, specifically of books written on the subject.
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Bill Moyers Biography →
A brief biography of a great man.
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NPR: Tribute to Bill Moyers →
I cannot tell you how much I am going to miss this man! He is one of the greatest journalists who ever lived, in my opinion. I just don’t know what I’m going to do without him!
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“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful,
ready...”
– Gaston Bachelard (via libraryland)
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A New Tumblr Blog for The Brontës →
holycrapbooks:
Charlotte, Emily, Anne and the rest.
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I MUST read Anne Frank’s diary again. I read it years ago and haven’t given it another look but a combination of factors has convinced me that this needs to be on my reading list and preferably the definitive edition that includes entries that were edited out, where she talks more about her relationship with her mother and her sexuality and other private things. I want to read her...
I am currently exploring The Secret Annex virtually. If you are interested in Anne Frank and The Holocaust this is just mind-blowing. You can explore each room and learn more about the people and Anne herself. I’m just enjoying it so much.
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The Secret Annex Online →
Take a tour of the Secret Annex where Anne Frank and seven other people lived for two years. It’s part of a feature on the website for the Anne Frank House.
WATCH THIS. IT IS AMAZING!!!
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Anne Frank's full diary on display in Amsterdam →
caraobrien:
AMSTERDAM – Nearly all of Anne Frank’s diary went on display Wednesday for the first time at the house where she wrote it during the two years the Jewish teenager was in hiding from the Nazis.
The notebooks and pages that comprise the World War II diary have been moved into the Anne Frank House museum to mark 50 years since it opened its doors to the public.
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thewormishere replied to your photoset: Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman just has the look of a trust-worthy writer. He’s like Santa, minus the jolly
This actually made me laugh out loud so thank you for your reply! He just looks familiar doesn’t he? There’s something wise and full about him. I’m one of those people who imagines meeting great writers from the past like Woolf or...
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American Experience: Walt Whitman →
He is one of my favorite poets and one of the greatest writers who ever lived. In this superb documentary done for the PBS series “American Experience,” we are taken on a journey of Whitman’s life and poetry. A must-see for anyone affected by Whitman’s verse and humanity.
I’ve posted this before but I’m posting it again mainly for thedrysalvages, but it’s...
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Song of Myself by Walt Whitman →
It’s long but it’s a masterpiece
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Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead, Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South,...
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NPR: After Loss, Turning to Poetry For Grief and... →
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“The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to...”
– Jacques Ellul (via libraryland)
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NPR: Robert Hass on Whitman's "Song of Myself" →
wordpainting asked: I see you ordered Blood Meridian from the library . . . you're in for a treat. I hope you like it as much as his other works.
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predatorywaspobserver:
Allen Ginsberg reads...
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dreaminginthedeepsouth:
Joys of the Window Seat - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Check this out. These pictures are stunning.
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Books I Just Ordered From the Library
1. On Writing by Stephen King
2. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
3. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
4. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
I am hoping I like these books and can read at least one a week. I’ve been so neglectful in my reading and these all sound very interesting!
On a sidenote, I am really wanting to read Madame Bovary for some reason and may try to fit...
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The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time →
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A list compiled by Daniel S. Burt, a PhD in Literature and for nine years the dean of Wesleyan University
Wouldn’t it be great to read all of these? I think that might be my major goal in life!
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“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.”
– Marcel Proust (via fuckyeahproust)
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“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the...”
– Annie Proulx (via wordpainting)
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54 Tips For Writers, From Writers
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The entire writing process is fraught with perils. Many writers would argue that the hardest part of writing is beginning. When asked what was the most frightening thing he had ever encountered, novelist Ernest Hemingway said, “A blank sheet of paper.”
Other writers believe that ideas are easy, it’s in the execution of those ideas that the hard work really begins. You have to...
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Ten rules for writing fiction | guardian.co.uk
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Ten rules for writing fiction | guardian.co.uk
Anne Enright
1 The first 12 years are the worst. 2 The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page. 3 Only bad writers think that their work is really good. 4 Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to...
imthatnicegirl asked: Hello :) I'm a huuuge follower of your tumblr. You post the most lovely quotes about reading and writing! I recently made a Tumblr for my writing inspiration (yes that includes you) and I was wondering if you can share this link to your followers... perhaps they can find something helpful in there too. :)
here's the link: http://aliceisdaydreaming.tumblr.com :) Thank you...
here's the link: http://aliceisdaydreaming.tumblr.com :) Thank you...
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“I think the people who become the most interesting writers are always going to...”
– Kay Ryan
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