February 2012
34 posts
“Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness;
Let him...”
– George Herbert, The Pulley
“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty...”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams (via livetophotograph)
“So much depends on one’s being true to one’s temperament.”
– Peter Elbow, Everyone Can Write. On the right mode of leadership for teaching, especially for collaborative learning.
“The surest proof of the existence of God is the King James translation of the...”
– Peter Elbow, Everyone Can Write
“Basically, here’s how it works: Students are given a weekly grid and must select...”
– the kind of homework that should be assigned (via squishynotslick)
“All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see...”
– Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
“Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
“He’s an uncommon love for the common man and godly wisdom resides in the...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
sarahneff:
The examined life:
not worth living. The lived life:
worth examining.
“A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
“Our cause is never in more danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but...”
– Screwtape, C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters.
I have to have read this book a half dozen times by now. It never gets old. (via ptbruiser)
“I don’t know what I think of that. Because I think, actually, one of the things...”
– Ira Glass, in response to Kurt Braunohler’s comment, “I do have a theory now. I do have a theory about if I do get married in the future. What I think I would want to do is have an agreement that at the end of seven years, we have to get remarried in order for the marriage to continue. But at the...
“Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– L.P. Jack from his Education Through Recreation, published in 1932.
(via viafrank)
“Don’t we all “waste” our time with one activity or another? … [T]he very manner...”
– S. W. F. Knecht: Why a blog?
(via ptbruiser)
““Can you say,” I once inquired of a sixty-year-old cloistered nun who had lived...”
– Patricia Hampl (via wesleyhill)
Squishy Not Slick: This has something to do with... →
squishynotslick:
“Soon it became clear to me that quietly and en masse, French parents were achieving outcomes that created a whole different atmosphere for family life. When American families visited our home, the parents usually spent much of the visit refereeing their kids’ spats, helping their toddlers do laps…
“If what’s always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world...”
– David Foster Wallace (via ajay via harkaway via kadrey)
“[T]he present jumbling of varieties of discourse has grown to the point where it...”
– Clifford Geertz, Blurred Genres
“Most men don’t die of old age, they die of retirement. I read somewhere...”
– Ralph Winter, The Retirement Booby Trap
“For most privileged, professional people, the experience of confinement is a...”
– from Adam Gopnik’s essay on mass incarceration and criminal justice in America (via wesleyhill)
“Browsing is the opposite of “search.” Search is precise, browsing is imprecise....”
– Leon Wieseltier (via wesleyhill)
January 2012
29 posts
“So the silences within speech are speech acts themselves… When the...”
– Peter Elbow, Everyone Can Write
“Very often people don’t listen to you when you speak to them. It’s...”
– John Ashberry
“A dramatic necessity goes deep into the nature of sentences. Sentences are not...”
– Robert Frost, Introduction to A Way Out
“God’s insistence that we ask Him to give us help so that He gets glory...”
– John Piper, Desiring God
“In short, to teach well we need skill as host and bouncer, as ally and...”
– Peter Elbow, Everyone Can Write
“To be understood is more rewarding than to be praised.”
– Peter Elbow, Everyone Can Write
“I decided then and there never to become someone who told jokes when...”
– Unnamed girl in “Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer
“A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if...”
– Plato on not going into politics (Apology 32a)
“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but...”
– Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain (via meganannaneff)
“I saw more clearly than ever, the first great and primary business which I ought...”
– George Muller of Bristol
“Our world is ideologically fragmented, and the range of positions, multiplied by...”
– Charles Taylor (via lukescommonplacebook)