February 2012
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apron+tea+chocolate
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“”So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he...”
– Dead Poets Society (via eyesturntoglass)
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“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life...”
– Emma Thompson (via theprobablestars)
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The Grammar Lesson
Steve Kowit
A noun’s a thing. A verb’s the thing it does. An adjective is what describes the noun. In “The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz”
of and with are prepositions. The’s an article, a can’s a noun, a noun’s a thing. A verb’s the thing it does.
A can can roll - or not. What isn’t was or might be, might meaning not yet...
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The Headline Writer by Gabriel Gadfly →
gabrielgadfly:
Forgive the headline writer. When he pens the phrase
GLOBAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN IMMINENT
he is just trying to make a few bucks so he can feed his cat
big bold scary words
sell more papers get more pageviews get clicked get clicked
more often than
THINGS ARE REALLY NOT SO BAD I MEAN THE SUN IS SHINING AND THE PLUMS ARE ON SALE
This poem © Gabriel Gadfly. Published...
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“I am sure God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to...”
– C.S. Lewis (via lazyscranton)
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“You’re the youngest old person I know.”
– a coworker to me
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'Twas a good day
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“‘How do you mean he’s heard about me? What sort of things?’...”
– This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“He knew that somewhere she must get a feeling to live upon, for she was not a...”
– O Pioneers Willa Cather
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Downton Abbey always trumps the Super Bowl (but I’m pleased for the Giants just the same).
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“I don’t need money, but I have needed you for a great many years.”
– O Pioneers Willa Cather
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O Pioneers (and anything by Cather) always leaves me feeling wistful.
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