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"I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see––and I don’t." - Georgia O’Keeffe
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"Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités ont leur mélancolie, car ce que nous quittons, c’est une partie de nous-mêmes; il faut mourir à une vie pour entrer dans une autre."
Anatole France
#Anatole France
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#l'amour
"Show us how happy it makes you to write a poem."
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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(Source: mythologyofblue)
“Tu nous entends l’Amour ? Tu nous entends? Si tu nous entends il faut que tu reviennes parce qu’on prêt maintenant, ça y est.”
(Source: Spotify)
"Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when we as individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it."
Joyce Carol Oates, 1978 interview with the Paris Review
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"I’ve been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But - and this is the point - who gets excited by a mere penny? If you follow one arrow, if you crouch motionless on a bank to watch a tremulous ripple thrill on the water and are rewarded with the site of a muskrat kit paddling from its den, will you count that sight a chip of copper only, and go your rueful way? It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourishged and fatigued he won’t stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get."
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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"New York … is an exciting town. Every day represents a new challenge — a new step forward on the road to getting an ulcer. In this city you’re invariably waiting for some son-of-a-bitch to call — and he doesn’t."
Wry wisdom from the tallest man in New York, by way of 29-year-old Gay Talese. (via explore-blog)
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"…Our gray stone lending library lay just upstream from a ferry operated by a man in a skiff with an outboard motor."
#Edward Rutherford
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#summer
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
#Truman Capote
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#writing
This is the Colour of my Dreams, Miro, 1925
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.” -Joan Miró
(Source: dearphone)
"As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle."
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1859) via Random House
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