“To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story. Who really wants to stay home and be right when you can don your armor, spring up on your steed and go forth to explore the world? True, you might get lost along the way, get stranded in a swamp, have a scare at the edge of a cliff; thieves might steal your gold, brigands might imprison you in a cave, sorcerers might turn you in a toad - but what of that? To fuck up is to find adventure.”
Kathryn Schulz, in Being Wrong. Adventures in the margin of error.
January222012
November252011
“You write short stories. And I think you like living short stories. But I’m kind of ready for the novel, you know…”
Happythankyoumoreplease
September272011
“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
September102011
“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”
The gifts of imperfection, by Brené Brown
June112011
(via womenreading)
February192011
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”
Miranda July
February142011
(via womenreading)
12PM
“Stories told at day’s end create a shared history, linking people in time and event as actors, tellers, and audience. The unfolding drama of life is revealed more by the telling than by the actual events told. Stories are not merely “chronicles”, like a secretary’s minutes of a meeting, written to report exactly what transpired and at what time. Stories are less about facts and more about meanings. In the subjective and embellished telling of the past, the past is constructed - history is made. History is judged to be true or false not solely with respect to its adherence to empirical fact. Rather, it is judged with the respect to such narrative criteria as “believability” and “coherence”. There is a narrative truth in life that seems quite removed from logic, science, and empirical demonstration. It is the truth of a “good story”.”
Dan. P. McAdams in The Stories We Live By.
12PM
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.”
Paul Murray
January312011
Dienstbericht
Eens per maand vul je je briefje in, kruist
keurig in de vakjes aan dat je niets hebt verdiend,
zogenaamd die ene verplichte keer gesolliciteerd
en dat je weer niet bent verhuisd: je was gewoon thuis.
Je ligt op bed en zwijgt en leest de dagen stuk,
de dagen dat het altijd winter leek. Wat als er
niets en niemand op je wacht, je toekomst leeg
als de bladen in het boek dat je niet schreef.
Nog niet, misschien. Je winterbleke vacht, de grauwe
dekens waaronder jij toch weet: er komt een dag
dat je opstaat, dat gore bed verlaat en de wereld
iets verschrikkelijks zult laten zien.
F.Starik
4AM
Vlinders
Zoals de zachte nachtgeluiden
stil komen dwalen in je droom
raken gedachten je soms aan.
Dat moeders ook dood kunnen gaan.
Dat vaders wel eens kunnen huilen.
En dat je nooit weet wat er komt.
Hoe kun je een gedachte laten zwijgen?
Het zijn net vlinders: kun je vlinders slaan?
Je wilt gewoon dezelfde blijven.
En dat er niemand weg zal gaan.
Johanna Kruit
January22011
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
Neil Gaiman (via wordpainting)
(via booklover)
December292010
(Source: wordpainting, via booklover)
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