July 2008
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“We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via scout) (via dilaudid)
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“You know what? You’re an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it’s...”
– Harriet the Spy (via jackieheartsb) (via unicornology) (via dilaudid)
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John Grisham on literary devices and cardboard...
Now That I’ve Learned About Foreshadowing, I’m Going To Use It In All Of My Stories
By John Grisham June 4, 2008 | The Onion | Issue 44•23
Guess what? There is this really neat literary device I just learned about, and it’s called “foreshadowing.” It’s this thing where, in the beginning of the story, you put in all these little “hints” about stuff...
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Interesting word of the day from Visual Thesaurus
Jewelry You might spell it jewellery if you’ve been unable to shake off the chains of British orthography, but however you spell it, don’t take it too seriously: the word is ultimately from a Latin root that means game or joke, and that also gives us such words as jocular and juggle.
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“Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.”
– ~ Maxwell Bodenheim (via sparkzy)
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