Source: leilockheartby Ralph Waldo Emerson
A writing blog for the author Chris Fox
who is dedicated to teaching and celebrating elegant,
eloquent prose. Who also likes nerdy stuff.
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5 months ago
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"Literature is the mind’s food and most of the world is starving"
- David Cain (via 61dccain)
(via literatureismyutopia)
11 months ago
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"Read. After being force-fed lists of required texts, take this opportunity to binge on books you would actually enjoy. Revisit the classics you discovered in high school. They will make more sense now."
- Twanna Hines, writer and sexual health advocate. ‘Know That You Will Screw Up’: Real Talk for New Graduates - News - GOOD (via bookoisseur)
(via bookriot)
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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11 months ago
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
- Virginia Woolf (via myimaginarybrooklyn)
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde (via lensandvellum)
1 year ago
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"‘Writing is the painting of the voice’"
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as described in Voltaire’s 1764 ‘Philosophical Dictionary’
(and remembered/recounted in a comment, responding to an article on writing is the greatest invention in More Intelligent Life)
(via stoppingandseeing)
