February 2012
18 posts
“1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400...”
– John Steinbeck’s Six Tips for the Aspiring Writer and His Nobel Prize Speech | Open Culture
“Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the...”
– Systematic Wonder: A Definition of Science That Accounts for Whimsy | Brain Pickings
“He guessed this must be what it was like to be at the end of your rope, when you...”
– A Meaningful Life, L.J. Davis
“Curiously, although their life together was terrible and they hadn’t made...”
– A Meaningful Life, L.J. Davis
“Sometimes it seemed to him that all the grown-ups he’d ever known had been...”
– A Meaningful Life, L.J. Davis
“To me the honour is sufficient of belonging to the universe — such a great...”
– W. N. P. Barbellion
“There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom...”
– Wislawa Szymborska - Nobel Lecture
“Every act of communication is an act of translation.”
– Gregory Rabassa
