February 2012
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“As he thinks in his heart, so he is.”
– Jewish Proverb (via her0inchic)
Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About... →
tarariot:
tokillahumblebee:
You are (by default) creative.
Creative thinking takes work.
You must go through the motions of being creative.
Your brain is not a computer.
There is no one right answer.
Never stop with your first good idea.
Expect the experts to be negative.
Trust your instincts.
There is no such thing as failure.
You do not see things as they are; you see them as you...
40 gutsy fictional heroines →
amandaonwriting:
We’re celebrating fiery females of the literary world, from the likes of Astrid Lindgren’s precocious Pippi Longstocking and Stieg Larsson’s fearless Lisbeth Salander, to Virginia Woolf’s quietly determined Mrs Ramsay and Agatha Christie’s dignified yet unyielding Miss Marple.
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“You can’t escape the world, and you’re not responsible for how you look. If you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via literaturesluts)
“When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave...”
– john steinbeck (via puffyhairdoll)
“With a fear of death comes a fear of insignificance, and I thought well,...”
– Laura Marling (via shardsofpornography)
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live...”
– James Baldwin (via moreofamore)
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via -bookworm)
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset...”
– Bob Harris, “Lost in Translation” (via blua)
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