November 2008
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"So you want another story?"
"Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened."
"Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?"
"Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English."
"Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?"
--Yann Martel, Life Of Pi
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“I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is...”
– Rufus, from “Dogma” (via affremblequotes)
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“My ability to listen closely to the pulse of my perceived world keeps me on my...”
– Seth Gordon, my comrade - Public Arts : WYSO’s This I Believe (2006-12-21)
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“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
– Lord Byron (via affremblequotes)
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Confederacy Surrenders, Civil War Over
(via whatthefuckdoineedtoknow)
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