To be continued

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"Do or do not, there is no try."

Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
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Marina about the response to the “How To Be a Heartbreaker” video (x)

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oh….well then….
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Notes Junot Diaz at City College
So if you read titles you probably know that Junot Diaz spoke at City College last night, and you can probably infer that he was his usual brillant self.

I took some notes because what he said is important, and I’d like to share them with you instead of hoarding them in my journal. If you’d like quotes that are 100 percent accurate I suggest you google the video of his speech, which is floating around the city college website. If you’re happy with gists, here’s what’s legible from my journal:
- “A good piece of art breaks down the formulas we previously had”
- On being a fiction editor, “What I look for in a good piece of writing is news of the human condition”
- Growing up in 80s New Jersey, there was no good Dominican literature in English. He decided to become a writer in part because “my community deserved good art.”
- Community and art are inextricable: “You can’t live your life without historical, political, economic context”
- “Young people are being raised in an atmosphere of fear….You’re supposed to study something practical because the system wants you to help its preservation. Not stuff that’s impractical, the system doesn’t want you to study ethnic studies because that will fuck the system up”
- “There’s no place in the world where race and economy aren’t tied”….suggested that “Racism” be given the more accurate title of “White supremacy.”
- He rights because he “believes passionately” in reading. A love of reading is primarily why he’s an author. “If you want your art to do anything you’re in trouble.”
- “You produce a piece of art so that you have no say.” This was his response to a question asking if his texts were misogynistic. He said the characters can be. It’s up to the reader to decide if they are or if he is, but added that, “representing something is not necessarily endorsing it.”
- “Everyone has a life story. What makes a writer is what they do to a story.”
#junot diaz #this is how you loose her #city college #speech
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"Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them."

Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (via living-life-at-too-high-a-pitch)

Haha. yeah…
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"I’ve been a bitch. I’ve been an asshole. I’ve been a pathetic craven hypocrite. But everything I ever did, however twisted, was always because I love you. If you could just believe that. I don’t want anything else in this vast, stupid, selfish world."

Jake Longrie

#love
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"There have been long periods spent apart from the different people I loved, due to nothing more than circumstances. There had been arguments and disappointments, for the most part small and easily reconciled, but over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and the reconciliation, the love and the doubting of love, the judgment and then coming together again, that we find our identity and define our relationships"

Ann Patchett, Woman’s Best Friend, Vogue Sept 2012

#ann patchett #vogue #dogs #love #september issue
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"There is some Myth for every man which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all that he did and thought"

Yeats

#good quotes #lit