| from The Dharma Bums |
[05 Apr 2004|01:32pm] |
From The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
( Tea inBerkeley )
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| The Map, Walking in this World |
[19 Mar 2004|07:40am] |
Julia Cameron author of The Artist's Way wrote this one too, and it gives great structure to being creative in your everyday life, your work, at home, special artistis'/ inner-child dates you make with yourself:
( Walking in this World )
For this reason artists/writers must have Courage, even heroism, to state what they see & hear.
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| The most important things are the hardest to say. |
[16 Mar 2004|12:50am] |
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"Unwell" - Matchbox 20 |
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| Excerpts from The Bridges of Madison County |
[04 Mar 2004|06:34pm] |
( Quotes from Robert Kincaid )
And I'd love to hear these ones myself:
( More from Robert )
From: The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller.
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| Excerpt from The Lover |
[03 Mar 2004|09:06pm] |
From The Lover by Marguerite Duras
( Page 1 )
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[26 Feb 2004|03:16pm] |
"Here was peace. She pulled in her horizen like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see it."
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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| About Beauty |
[21 Feb 2004|07:48pm] |
"And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy."
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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[19 Feb 2004|04:25pm] |
"'Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom.'"
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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| doesn't it just burn you up? |
[30 Jan 2004|07:19pm] |
This is an excerpt from what I deem to be a great play. A little weird, but I wouldn't like it as much if it weren't.
( It )
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[28 Jan 2004|01:44pm] |
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( The Bell Jar )
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| Two things I've read recently that I enjoyed |
[14 Jan 2004|12:55pm] |
"Into the Interior: a vast subdivision, antennae of television to the meaningless sky. In lifeproof houses they hover over the young, sop up a little of what they shut out."
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
( another one )
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| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. |
[03 Jan 2004|03:26pm] |
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"As for Emma she never made any effort to determine whether or not she was in love with him. Love, she felt, ought to come all at once, with great thunderclaps and flashes of lightning; it was like a storm bursting upon life from the sky, uprooting it, overwhelming the will and sweeping the heart into the abyss. It did not occur to her that rain forms puddles on a flat roof when the drainpipes are clogged, and she would have continued to feel secure if she had not suddenly discovered a crack in the wall." pg. 87.
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