“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”
On this day in 1877, Dostoyevsky discovered the meaning of life in a dream https://t.co/eKEj3ClPHL
"Successful results aren't always immediate. Routine is key. Make it a routine to always work hard and push beyond your comfort zone. Others will notice and the results will come." #WednesdayWisdom
- Jonathon Cook (BA '05)
More @texasbookfest promo: my husband Keith Fern in his debut as sports moderator (better late than never) & sis @lynnebstein introducing a book about the Holocaust and the refugee crisis of the 30s and 40s. Sunday at 1 and 2 pm inside the Texas Capitol. @michaeldobbs@kdrobbins
Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please ... tell us something that will save us from ourselves." ~ Alan Watts
There’s nothing quite like seeing hundreds of people holding up your book in one (beautiful ball)room. Seriously a #debutauthordream moment. 😭😭😭 Thank you @LibraryCCPL! #ilovelibraries!
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“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.” - Peter Heller “
#peterheller#augustauniversity#writerscommunity
"The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway." ~ James Baldwin
"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains."
Whitman, post-stroke, on what makes life worth living: https://t.co/evPbb1UqKv
Looking for a dose of the great outdoors? In THE RIVER, Peter Heller's “nature-heavy hand keeps the reader with them in the woods, under the colors of the sky and the above the dipping paddles.” 🌌🛶
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