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they call me a stunning example of normalcy ...
all things considered
Created on 2001-08-02 22:47:46 (#288271), last updated 2009-02-11
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Basic Info| Name: | and let the lover beware |
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| Birthdate: | 1980-03-16 |
| Location: | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
Bio(my name is kristal. i am the editor for a publication for a non-profit organization. currently finishing up my bachelor's degree in english lit/creative writing. i live with my husband, our two cats and a few thousand books.)
i most fervently want to be a writer, so i write. in a perfect world, i'd publish a few novels, fall hopelessly in love with a boy who was hopelessly in love with me, travel the earth, keep journals and write more novels, take photographs of little kids and the elderly, write & direct a film, have a few children who will be very well-named, read stories to said children and help them paint strange and wonderful murals on their bedroom walls, and wake up next to someone when i am old and there is a thunderstorm and i wonder if i will live another day.
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... we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief.
-- franz kafka
Books, books, and more books!
i most fervently want to be a writer, so i write. in a perfect world, i'd publish a few novels, fall hopelessly in love with a boy who was hopelessly in love with me, travel the earth, keep journals and write more novels, take photographs of little kids and the elderly, write & direct a film, have a few children who will be very well-named, read stories to said children and help them paint strange and wonderful murals on their bedroom walls, and wake up next to someone when i am old and there is a thunderstorm and i wonder if i will live another day.
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words
... we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief.
-- franz kafka
Books, books, and more books! ConnectInterests (99):
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Agnes Scott College - Decatur, GA (2005 - present)
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