When Pen Meets Paper: 2012

I never blog. I miss blogging. I should blog more.

Favorite Quotes

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea forever. WILL SELF
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. MAUREEN JOHNSON
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I try to live life so that I can live with myself. JOHN GREEN
My brother falls in love like a little kid bobs for apples; Head first. Eyes closed. Just hoping for something to come up. MATTHEW HODGSON
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. JOHN GREEN (In his novel Looking For Alaska)
To be great is to be misunderstood. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. RALPH WALDO EMRSON
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. RAY BRADBURY
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. DR. SEUSS
…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’. JOHN GREEN

When Pen Meets Paper

Sunday, February 12, 2012

A very existential mini-blog