January 2012
38 posts
“Meanwhile, Dario- who slept beside her and woke beside her for six years of her...”
– The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
“Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of...”
– Gay Talese (via forwardfitting)
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“As you get older, you should get impatient with showing off in literature. It is...”
– Thomas McGuane
“I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.”
– P.G. Wodehouse (via writingquotes)
“Half the fear of failure is of the judgment of false friends we feel compelled...”
– Alain de Botton (via mostexerent)
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter -... →
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“My grandmother said that what works good is better than what looks good. That’s...”
– Eames Demetrios, How Style Differs From Design
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“Newspaper put design stories in the style section, but style is different from...”
– Eames Demetrios, How Style Differs From Design
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“Content is not bought and paid for and directed by an advertiser. It might be...”
– Hamilton Nolan
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“To make a government requires no great prudence. Settle the seat of power; teach...”
– Edmund Burke
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“Do the day’s work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever...”
– Calvin Coolidge
In ‘Mondo Agnelli,’ a Ride on Fiat’s... →
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“For it’s a subtle craft, the art of the playboy—the creation of a life of...”
– Graydon Carter
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“I was habitually late in delivering stories because I constantly rewrote them,...”
– Gay Talese
“I don’t think you’re ever wasting your time when you think you’re wasting your...”
– Gay Talese quoted in Gay Talese has a Coke*: reflections of a narrative legend, in conversation with Esquire’s Chris Jones | Nieman Storyboard (via capitalnewyork)
December 2011
29 posts
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“Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on...”
– Christopher Hitchens
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“One reason a gentleman may be obliged to lie is to protect the reputation of the...”
– Christopher Hitchens
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“If this vulgar hoodlum president [JFK] had not been survived by a widow of...”
– Christopher Hitchens
“To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It’s sitting...”
– Harper Lee (via writingquotes)