Until the lion has his historian, the hunter will always be a
hero.

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

This is my literal boyfriend who is also a playwright. It was his birthday yesterday!

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In 1908, Kafka landed a position at the Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute in Prague, where he was fortunate to be on the coveted “single shift” system, which meant office hours from 8 or 9 in the morning until 2 or 3 in the afternoon. This was a distinct improvement over his previous job, which required long hours and frequent overtime. So how did Kafka use these newfound hours of freedom? First, lunch; then a four-hour-long nap; then 10 minutes of exercise; then a walk; then dinner with his family; and then, finally, at 10:30 or 11:30 at night, a few hours of writing—although much of this time was spent writing letters or diary entries.

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Douglas Coupland

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“In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.”
― Robert Graves (l.)

Boogeymen - part of a series of eerie stereoviews - dated 1923 (Via)

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“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

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There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature.