February 2012
22 posts
How Is Your Heart?
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores I always had this certain contentment- I wouldn’t call it happiness- it was more of an inner balance that settled for whatever was occuring and it helped in the factories and when relationships went wrong with the girls. it helped through the wars and the hangovers the backalley fights the hospitals. to awaken...
“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...”
– Stephen Colbert
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Rise and demand; you are a burning flame.
You are sure to conquer there where...”
– From Miguel Angel Asturias’s “Barefoot Meditations,” via Elisabeth Burgos-Debray’s introduction to I, Rigoberta Menchú
“Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit.”
– My flammable roommate’s fabulous writing professor
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
– Franz Kafka
January 2012
24 posts
“Envy is a declaration of inferiority.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Watchnorthwesternu:
Two distinguished Northwestern alums went head-to-head on last night’s Colbert Report. Watch Stephen Colbert (C86, H11) cross-examine Justice John Paul Stevens (L47, H77).
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
– Lewis Carroll
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James
How to Tell a Story
There is a way of telling stories. A red pen. A teacher to move it. Instead you have hands, and a Light inside you, and Bones. Instead you have ideas, which ricochet, and an anger that won’t sit still, and dogs from outside which come to die in the quiet spots inside of you. And, deliberately, you have noise. You have rape, and cities, the noise of the dumb, and of the very rape of the earth, an...
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a...”
– Robert Frost
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by...”
– Simone de Beauvoir
“You mean well. Chances are you write well too. You’re perceptive, in that...”
– Why You Write in the Second Person by Adam Detzner
December 2011
25 posts
