January 2013
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the animals: “Hannah had a near-death kind of... →
colinwinnette:
“Hannah had a near-death kind of experience right around the time I knew him and he told us that he found Jesus in that time. I think I remember him saying that Jesus actually came into to the hospital and sat with him. He wrote in one of my books: ‘Christ is the strength that you do not have to pray for. Thereness, my lass.’”
The fist installment of a new interview series I’m...
“People who weren’t nominated like Paul Thomas Anderson who is like…Orson Welles.”
– Ben Affleck (via oldfilmsflicker)
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“Attention is like water. It flows. It’s liquid. You create channels to divert...”
– The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket : The New Yorker (via tumbullr)
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“When did we decide that ERA was more important than wins?”
– Jack Morris
(via @mlbonfox, h/t @dgoold)
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“I fear someday soon people will be the largest animals on the planet. Imagine...”
– “Graceland,” Claire Vaye Watkins (via kelsfjord)
from Hobart 10, what-what! (bonus: “The End Lands: In Which My Beautiful Long-Legged Now Born Niece Visits the Sutro Baths,” excerpts of story by Claire Vaye Watkins with photos by her sister, Lise Baker)
“From there, Saban wound into a story that centered on an old Martin Luther King...”
– Nick Saban’s Alabama wins the BCS National Championship again - Grantland
ON WRITING; or, also, ON GOOD INTENTIONS
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“I have moved to the edge of the world for two years. If I am not careful, I will...”
– Roxane Gay, North Country Can I just say I have never read anything by Roxane Gay before, but the first sentence of this story alone had me hooked, and the rest is just absolutely beautiful. (via creativecloud)
Thank you for sharing this, creativecloud! (via roxanegay)
Hobart 12 up in here,...
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“Novels are fantasies of powerlessness and power—among the zillion other things...”
– Adam Novy (via mttbll) 