“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors.”
Epictetus, Philosopher
Reading Blanchot: Everyday Alienation — Pen and Screen
“My strangeness had as its cause all that which made me not seem strange to her. With horror she discovered in everything that was ordinary about her the source of everything that was extraordinary about me.” – Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure
“… in the real world, every being who lives consciously has recourse to fiction; he is […]
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.” — Art of Quotation
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation – an investigation of my own life.” Neil Simon, 1927-2018, playwright, Pulitzer Prize, Goodbye in 2018
Tristan Tzara – Voie (1928) — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
quel est ce chemin qui nous sépare à travers lequel je tends la main de ma pensée une fleur est écrite au bout de chaque doigt et le bout du chemin est une fleur qui marche avec toi * Way what is this road that separates us across which I hold out the hand of […]
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How Famous Writers Organize Their Books — RhysTranter.com
Includes Susan Sontag, Hanya Yanagihara, Georges Perec, Samuel Pepys, Brian Evenson, Erica Jong, and more
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looking for hemingway, the lost generation, in the cafés–part 2 — un Voyageur
In 1971 I traveled to Paris for the first time. I mentioned finding a Balzac-like pension where I could stay for a couple of months that was around the corner from a former Hemingway apartment on rue Notre Dames des Champs and within easy walking distance from rue de Fleurus, the apartment of Gertrude Stein […]
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The dance — memory of a bird (and a thousand words)
« The art of living is based on rhythm, on give and take, ebb and flow, light and dark, life and death. By acceptance of all the aspects of life, good and bad, right and wrong, yours and mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a […]
Henry Miller, “the wisdom of the heart”. In “the wisdom of the heart”. New York: New Directions, 1966, p. 32-33.
Olav H. Hauge – Un poème chaque jour — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
Je veux écrire chaque jour un poème, chaque jour. Ce doit être facile. Browning s’y était mis, il faisait des rimes et battait la mesure avec ses sourcils en broussaille. Donc, un poème par jour. Quelque chose te surprend quelque chose arrive quelque chose attire ton attention. – Il fait jour, je me lève avec […]
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Charles Bukowski: On Writing
The racetrack to me is like the bullfights were to Hemingway — a place to study death and motion and your own character or lack of it.
– Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.
– Charles Bukowski
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