February 2009
100 Best First Lines From Novels →
Site of the day.
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“There’s a little truth behind every ‘just kidding’, a little curiosity behind...”
– Unknown
Overheard...
Pet shop owner: Don't touch the puppies!
Girl: He touched me!
Pet shop owner: He can't read. The sign is there for you.
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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing Fiction
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet...
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“If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want...”
– Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course
January 2009
When Books Could Change Your Life →
Read this and reminisce.
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Song of the day: “If I Ever Feel...
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“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again;...”
– Anais Nin
An English professor wrote the words: “A woman without her man is nothing” on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.
All of the males in the class wrote: “A woman, without her man, is nothing”
All the females in the class wrote: “A woman: without her, man is nothing”
Punctuation is powerful.
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“All I want is one more chance to show you you were right for me.”
– Stars, Reunion
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My Favorite Word →
Site of the day.
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion...”
– Abraham Lincoln
Overheard...
Girl #1: You should definitely Netflix it, it's totally your kind of movie.
Girl #2: You think?
Girl #1: Well, you love racism and cowboys don't you?
Newborn Babies Feel The Beat
Babies are born with a keen sense of rhythm, a new study suggests. Testing a newborn’s beat perception might one day help diagnose abnormal brain development early on.
Babies often bounce or clap to a rhythm when they’re less than a year old. But scientists were unsure whether they learn beat perception early in life, or whether they’re born with it.
To find out, a team led...
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“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life...”
– Joseph Campbell
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Song of the day: “Dog Days Are Over”...
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WatchFor all those who love New York
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“I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks to much,...”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin
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“Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us....