When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to death and blew his head off with a shotgun. Someone asked John Cheever, “What’d you learn from Hemingway?” and he said “I learned not to blow my head off with a shotgun.” I remember going to the Michigan poetry festival, meeting Etheridge Knight there and Robert Creeley. Creeley was so drunk—he was reading and he only had one eye, of course, and had to hold his book like two inches from his face using his one good eye. But you look at somebody like George Saunders—I think he’s the best short story writer in English alive—that’s somebody who tries very hard to live a sane, alert life.
You’re present when you’re not drinking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s every day. It’s probably better for your writing career, you know? I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist.
"In an interview with The Fix, Mary Karr debunks the toxic mythology that it is necessary to be damaged in order to be creative. My own vehement defiance to that mythology is what led me to choose Ray Bradbury – the ultimate epitome of creating from joy rather than suffering – as the subject of my contribution to The New York Times’ The Lives They Lived.
Pair with Karr on why writers write.
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When you want to be friends with someone but you’re too shy to ask for their Skype
When you have people on skype but are to shy to talk to them
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- [p. 374/262] ”They went to the Ritz again […]. And, […] for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.”
From the song ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’:
That certain night, the night we met
There was magic abroad in the air
There were angels dining at the Ritz
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square- here
well.
as if they weren’t already married in my head anyway.
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I FOUND A TUTORIAL ON HOW TO MAKE DILDO POPSICLES IM LEGITIMATELy DYING OF LAUGHTER RN
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ME LIKE
FIRE LORD BEYONCE
THE FIRE NATION’S TRUE RULER
W O W
But then, everything changed when the single ladies attacked…
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I’d feel like a little bitch if I didn’t reblog this
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thorin-oakenshield-is-a-asdfghjk:
this is the best thing that appeared on my dash today
I’m giggling like an idiot help.
This is why German is my favorite
German - when a declaration of love sounds like a declaration of war. Brilliant though :)
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HEY FANDOM,
We need to agree on a butt tag that will distinguish our butts from the porn butts. I don’t want to have to wade through fifteen pages of porn butt to find the Marvel butts.
Can we just get together on this?
This is actually…
#this is all the actors in England #all 12 of them
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Before you post one of those “reblog for x, like for y” posts, let me explain to you a thing:
Your data is definitely going to be skewed, because the people who reblog it are reasonably likely to have followers who agree with them, thus the reblogging perpetuates itself, wheras the liking is a…
REAL Lesbians React to Lesbian Porn!I’m laughing so hard oh my god
but my wants have proved a poor master
My current job is one I’ve been doing during the summers for the past few years, so I actually just had to go in and be like, “I wanna work here...
Shoulder Tips
Needed this for about twenty years
I am, sometimes, academic in real life - my office is kind of full of frustrated academics.
I don’t always speak in life as I write here, though.
I guess I do know trivia about some things, but I constantly look stuff up for things I post here, so that impression may be over-sold.
The A.I. was quiet for a long moment. When he finally answered he sounded like his calm, collected self, but Pepper wondered at that hesitation.
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Only Natasha was still fully clothed, which was pretty impressive, because she was still in her skin-hugging battle uniform. Bruce was starting to...