Diaries & Journals
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Kerouac

38 The world was spun out of a blade of grass: the world was spun out of a mind. Heaven was spun out of a blade of grass: heaven was ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals November 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Sally Urwin

Wednesday 14th March We wake up to two feet of white, crisp snow. The kids are squealing in excitement, and I ring the school to tell them not to send ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Ricardo Piglia

And so he tries not to succumb, holding on to the remains of a sharp and free-flowing intelligence, squandered by distraction, because he can clearly see that he has few ...
( Category: Biographical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Ricardo Piglia

Tuesday, June 8 You are inside the world you narrate. What I mean is that you must never say anything that is external to the universe of the action. The ...
( Category: Biographical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-24 | Author:Cici. B [B, Cici.]

if only he knew just how many nights I would close my eyes and pray to UnLove him… if only he knew. ___ It’s been a little over a year… ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-19 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David; Allen, Francis H.;

* * * 162 [A term evidently imported by Thoreau from Maine, where he learned it from the loggers and Indians. It is used to signify a little bay in ...
( Category: Birdwatching May 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-10 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [W. E. K. Anderson]

1828 JANUARY 1 TUESDAY As I walk by myself I talkd to myself And thus myself said to me.1 Since the 20 November 1825, for two months that is and ...
( Category: Authors May 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Rachel Hollis [Hollis, Rachel]

TEN YEARS I like to encourage people to start by closing their eyes and imagining the best version of themselves. Imagine that a decade of time has gone by, and ...
( Category: Study Guides May 8,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tony Benn

Morality, accountability and the British Labour movement It is here that both the moral argument referred to above, and the issue of democratic accountability, which have both played so large ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals April 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-12 | Author:Charles Bukowski

beer I don’t know how many bottles of beer I have drunk while waiting for things to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whiskey and beer mostly ...
( Category: Letters March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Henri Cole

THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY for James Lord called him “an intimate of Picasso and Giacometti,” and it reported that he is survived by “his longtime companion and adopted son.” ...
( Category: Surrealism May 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Carl Rollyson

17 RECOVERY 1976–77 In the spring of 1976, Sigrid Nunez, a twenty-five-year-old writer and Columbia University MFA, went to work for Susan Sontag. During Sontag’s illness, correspondence had piled up, ...
( Category: United States April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-29 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

TO MRS. EMERSON (AT CONCORD). Staten Island, October 16, 1843. MY dear Friend, — I promised you some thoughts long ago, but it would be hard to tell whether these ...
( Category: Anthologies April 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:J.D. McClatchy

- “ ‘I distinguish the picturesque and the beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a third and distinct character, which I call unexpectedness.’ “ ...
( Category: General March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Pat Conroy

The Best Night in the Life of This Aging Citadel Point Guard… JANUARY 2015 I’ll not pretend this is not one of the greatest nights of my life and one ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )