February 2012
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I Give A Lot Of Attention To Sentences →
I give a lot of attention to sentences, but mainly because they don’t come out right for me on the first go-round, or the second, or the eighth, or the thirtieth. Revising takes me a lot of time… When I’m working on a story or essay, if I find something messed up, I make myself start over and read it through again. If I find something else wrong, I start back over, and I keep...
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You Cannot Evict An Idea →
Very measured and articulated piece of writing from Dr. Giles Fraser, that mixes present day social commentary with the context of history.
You can never evict an idea.
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It's a powerful way of communicating ideas; of...
Luke Ives Pontifell carries a Blackberry. He owns an iPad and writes a blog. He harbours no aversion to the bytes and tweets that whirl through the modern world. He has also devoted his life to the production of handcrafted books that will be around long after he’s gone.
When everything is disposable, it’s a powerful way of communicating ideas - of saying, this is something that...
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“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic....”
– Sherlock Holmes: The House of Silk
Intriguing quote that highlights the beauty of our interpretation.
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“Thank you all for coming around to the self-evident point I made five minutes...”
– Aaron Sorkin (Toby Ziegler: West Wing)
Always makes me smile. I couldn’t have said it better than myself.
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You Met God On Meadow And Moorland
You met God on meadow and moorland; you met Him in the homes of the people. God seemed to be everywhere… not an evangelist, not a special effort. Not anything at all based upon human endeavour, but an awareness of God that gripped the whole community so much so that worked stopped.
(Duncan Campbell describing the 1949 Hebrides Revival)
It’s a quote that still provokes me to this...