May 2013
“What is wrong with us? We spend all this money going to China, going to Russia...”
– Karen Spears Zacharias (via azspot)
“The best approach is to not try to write things that will go viral. No, the best...”
– Seth Godin echoes Kurt Vonnegut, who in the seventh of his 8 timeless tips on writing advised, “Write to please just one person.” (via explore-blog)
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“Don’t fool yourself. English isn’t inherently superior, or easier to learn, or...”
– my uncle left this comment on his friend’s Facebook status, a white British man who was bragging about how easy it is to be a native English speaker when trekking to different nations. (via maarnayeri)
April 2013
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“Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things...”
– Natalie Goldberg (via hellanne)
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King Cotton's Long Shadow →
Without slavery, however, the survey maps of the General Land Office would have remained a sort of science-fiction plan for a society that could never happen. Between 1820 and 1860 more than a million enslaved people were transported from the upper to the lower South, the vast majority by the venture-capitalist slave traders the slaves called “soul drivers.” The first wave cleared the region...
