The headline at The New Yorker—Obama, Cruz, and Catiline [http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/obama-cruz-catiline]—really got me. I labored over the Catiline orations in high school, and I've actually got a copy of De Senectute next to my desk to get to soon, but I…
> “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.” > —Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises I wonder how this [http://poetsandwriters.tumblr.com/post/103213680476/i-cant-stand-it-to-think-my-life-is-going-so-fast] struck me the first time I read it. Can't…
Lifehacker cites the post Austin Kleon cited when he got me started on the Rule of Fifty [http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/PobR-etxmHU/read-50-pages-before-deciding-to-drop-a-book-1660458546] . The comments at Nancy Pearl's blog offer some interesting thoughts and variations: the severe "my first-page test. If the author…
Reblogged from theparisreview [http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/102908369981/you-have-to-communicate-sensation-the-belief-in] which also includes a photo of a fountain and a manuscript page. > “You have to communicate sensation, the belief in what life is, what it’s about, and you do it through learning how to handle a pen.” Shelby…
> “Sixty feels exactly like 50, with aching feet and more forgetfulness. (AAA had to come unlock my car this morning, as God is my witness.) But your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young,…
> It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. —Horace I recorded this saying in 2009. It holds its freshness for me across five years, and it's stranger still to think that it was written for a time without computers, iPads, iPods, and cell phones.…
> When you hold a (real) book in your hands, the molecules in your body rejoice. —Maira Kalman via Explore [http://explore.noodle.com/post/102425437938/when-you-hold-a-real-book-in-your-hands-the] In the same post, Rebecca Solnit's "a book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.” is…
> "Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear." #Thoreau [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Thoreau?src=hash] #Quote [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Quote?src=hash] — Henry David Thoreau (@ThoreauPage) November 8, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ThoreauPage/status/531045162982862849] I wonder whether Thoreau…