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tunnel. The early years, 1977 to 1983, were the bleakest. I was writing my diaries by hand back then. The letters were small and, fueled by meth, a typical entry would go on for pages—solid walls of words, and every last one of them
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“Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.”
― The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
― The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
“I think its good to just say what you're thinking out loud. Some guy comes up to you on the street and starts asking a bunch of personal questions, you can say 'Whoa, this is weird behavior, I don't know you. You seem like a predator.' If he gets mad and calls you a "bitch", it doesn't mean you're a bitch, it just means you were right." -Karen Kilgariff”
― Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
― Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
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I have a theory, almost all writers I know of are in some way or another… wrecked, or destroyed, you know, something is broken. Why should you write if that’s not so? I mean it takes so much to write, why should you bother?”
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“The brain is a trashcan, though perhaps the best of all possible trashcans.”
― The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
― The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
“Never practice more than three or four hours a day. No one can concentrate longer than that, and you must spend the rest of your time learning about life and love and art and all the other wonderful things in the world. If a young person sits in the practice room all day, what can he possibly have to express in his music?”
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Women and Men
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Women and Men began as a reading group for Joseph McElroy's masterpiece. It has developed into All Things McElroy. We have chapter threads for discuss ...more
The Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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This group is for anyone who knows (or wants to know) about Virginia Woolf. If you have read all her works or none, loved her books or hated them, t ...more
East of Eden Readalong
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"The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up th ...more
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