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Casey took the .45 snubnose and jammed it hastily into my pocket.
We were off to the dog races and learning to be prepared was something that had started with my tenure in the Boy Scouts and continued all the way through the death of my former partner.
I was always learning to forget what I had learned before, but if that isn’t a truth I had learned about life the hard way then I don’t know what is.
Ten Rules for Fiction:
The venerable Elmore Leonard makes the case for good Elements of Style.
via This Isn’t Happiness and The Trad:
Ten Rules, Elmore Leonard
Source: nevver
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Go On When You Don’t Feel Like It
“Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing to do is shovel shit from a sitting position.”
Source: advicetowriters.com
The Secret of Getting Ahead
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
-Mark Twain
“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”
- Saul Bellow
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“For sale:
baby shoes,
never worn.”
-Papa H
It’s Hemingway’s 112th birthday - you know what to do…
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” — Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)
Source: i12bent
“Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality…”
I loved this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt that I saw recently on the Internet.
Though it’s a question if she really ever said it.
Still, she may have been thinking it.
Here’s one for the road, then, that is well documented:
“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt.
Damn straight, E!
Let’s stop a moment and celebrate the boundless awesomeness of women. Though they may be assholes at times ;), they are also our Mothers, Wives, Girlfriends, Lovers and Daughters — ma cousine, ma tante, mein Schatz;
müdder, mére, madre — and without them, life would be infinitely more boring.
..>)
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Unfortunately, there really wasn’t any confusion. They are machines, and adaptable ones at that, fit for a variety of specific purposes…
Hugo Ball (born 22 February, 1886; died 14 September, 1927), pictured above in a photograph made, I believe, in the late 1920s.
‘The war is based on crass error. Men have been mistaken for machines. Machines, not men, should be decimated. At some future date, when only the machines march, things will be better. Then everyone will be right to rejoice when they all demolish each other.’
—from Hugo Ball’s diary, 26 June, 1915
‘One must be astonished totally, yet more and more softly. That is how eternity wonders at the times and changes them. One must wonder at the wonders. And also at the wounds, the deepest and last wounds, and elevate them to the wondrous.’
—from the diary, 21 November, 1921
(Both diary entries above are taken from Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary by Hugo Ball, edited and with an introduction by John Elderfield; translated from the German by Ann Raimes; University of California Press: 1996)
Source: mhsteger
