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I sometimes regret abandoning my daily self-portrait project. It’s fun looking back on these things, but at the time it seemed like such a chore…
Day 31- There’s no travel like train travel. I just saw more of Java in 6 hours than in all of my other visits combined.
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I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had just read a novel called “American Psycho” — and that it was such a shame that young Americans were serial murderers. Now, obviously I said this in a fit of mild irritation.
I would never have occurred to me to think that just because I had read a novel in which a character was a serial killer that he was somehow representative of all Americans. And now, this is not because I am a better person than that student, but, because of America’s cultural and economic power, I had many stories of America. I had read Tyler and Updike and Steinbeck and Gaitskill. I did not have a single story of America.
— Chimamanda Adichie (via bowfolk)
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I don’t usually get excited by the whole repackaged retro thing, but this could be interesting…
Where The Wild Things Ought To Be (via We Love You So)
sometimes it’s the little things have you laughing out loud at your desk.
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Excellent advice from Ramenz
If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
— Ray Bradbury (via srsly, stare-at-walls, into, buyhercandy) (via tarts)
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it’s saturday night…
biblicalknowledge:comicallyvintage:
All you have to do is sit still…
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