Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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| — | Mark Twain, via flavorwire |
“She trusts the laws of aerodynamics. My mind stampedes. I can almost accept that a battleship floats when everybody knows steel sinks.”
-Amy Hempel, In The Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.
-John Green “Looking for Alaska”
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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| — | Ernest Hemingway |
“Stay gold, Ponyboy” one of my favorite books and poets signified in one tattoo. I’m so proud of this :)
And out again into the unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea.
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| — | John Fowles, from The French Lieutenant’s Woman (thanks, toenterintothesebonds) |
A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered the other is a fool, but a great fool.
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| — | G. K. Chesterton |
My 6th tattoo :) A portrait of Edgar Allan Poe done by Richard Casares from Addiction Tattoo in San Antonio, Texas. I’m so in love with this thing.
