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May 27, 2019March 15, 2019 - Books, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Gray’s Anatomy

“The femur is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.” Here’s a sentence from Gray‘s Anatomy that my…

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May 27, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“In art as in lovemaking heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”

  Happy birthday, John Barth! 89, today! Here are some quotes from the author. “Self-knowledge is always bad news.” “[F]iction…

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May 26, 2019 - Birthday, Music, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”

  Happy birthday, Miles Davis! Here are some quotes from the musician. “I’ll play it and tell you what it…

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May 25, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Neither dogmatize yourself, nor accept another’s dogmatism.”

  Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”…

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May 25, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“To write is to say things one wouldn’t normally say to people.”

  Happy birthday, Raymond Carver! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews. “At the risk of appearing foolish,…

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May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 - Birthday, Music, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?”

  Happy birthday, Bob Dylan! 78, today! Lucky to have seen this trickster and consummate artist perform live many times…

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May 22, 2019May 22, 2019 - Birthday, Music, Reading, Writing

“The possible has been tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible.”

  Happy Arrival Day, Sun Ra! Here are some quotes from the composer and musician. “I think of myself as…

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May 22, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“I think poetry is a cold art with a big heart of all heat.”

  Happy birthday, Lucie Brock-Broido! Here are some quotes from the poet. “I, abstract, adoring, distant / And unsalvageable.” “Wonderment…

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May 22, 2019September 27, 2019 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Three Poems, by Danielle Pafunda

Everyone tells me there’s no work on this road, I make bad choices okay fine but I swing from a…

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May 21, 2019August 13, 2019 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

Every Fly’s Ascendant, by Debra Di Blasi

  In the end, silence reigned. It settled over dry fields and skeletons—trees black obelisks in risen waters. Finally, children…

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