Bornfamous

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
- George Bernard Shaw

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everything i ever needed to know about writing i learned from editing (and vice versa) READ ‘EM. PRINT ‘EM. TACK ‘EM ON YOUR WALL. THE ten commandments FOR WRITERS — PLUS, TEN MORE FOR EDITORS.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.
- Robert Frost

My friend and I have made a pact to help each other face our fears. This is big.
She is recovering from panic disorder, something I can relate to with my own agoraphobia. We are both petrified of making phone calls to strangers but in order to support ourselves and our families, that’s what we have [...]

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that ‘normal’ isn’t a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.
- Robin Swicord

If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
- Isaac Asimov

In the long run we hit only what we aim at.
- Henry David Thoreau
[via ikastikos]

Linda’s personal homeschooling philosophy [and mine too]:
“Think about your hobbies, how much you know about them. Did anyone tell you exactly how to learn about them? Did you have to write a paper on why you chose that hobby? Did someone come along in the middle of your birdwatching, or whatever, and say “sorry, you [...]

Blogging: Tune Out and Switch On: “Weblogging is changing our view of the world. Mainly because we are now writing about our own views. Instead of watching the editied for tv version we are taking the time to collect, rearrange, codify and publish our own version of what we see. We are exercizing our brains, [...]

I’m a little nervous this morning because I am going to go to a Buddhist ’service’ [what do they call it anyway?] for the first time. Buses only run once an hour on Sundays, so I’ll have to wait 45 minutes for the, um, ’service’ to begin. I hope the center will be open and [...]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
- James Baldwin

News: Gator digital wallet allows hacker back doors: “Gator, a digital wallet program installed on millions of computers, contains a security flaw that could enable malicious sites to take control of a user’s computer.”

If our humanity does not soon catch up with our technology, we will be no more than a curious footnote in world history about a civilization which reached dizzying heights of gadgetry and then went mad before destroying itself.
- Bo Lozoff

Go ahead, light your candles and burn your incense and ring your bells and call out to God, but watch out, because God will come, and He will put you on His Anvil and fire up His Forge and beat you and beat you until He turns brass into Pure Gold.
- paraphrased from Saint [...]

anybody know how to get google to stop indexing this site? i keep finding embarrassing personal information there and it’s had a chilling effect on my writing.