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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

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Did you catch the Wall Street Journal’s exclusive reveal for the covers of the Penguin Galaxy series, with commentary by series introducer @neil-gaiman and cover artist Alex Trochut? The Penguin Galaxy series is a new series of six collectible hardcover editions of genre-defining masterworks of sci-fi and fantasy, including Stranger in a Strange Land, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Neuromancer, Left Hand of Darkness, Dune, and The Once and Future King. We can’t wait until October to get our hands on these!

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Peter Freuchen and his second wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, in a photo taken by Irving Penn in 1947. Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World. Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question.

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Beginner's Guide to Suicide

I do not have a sense of pride My worth of self was nullified Upon this never ending slide Into the unidentified Instead I am preoccupied Not with babes and loving bride But sharpened knives and cyanide Terrorised and terrified My Jekyll and my Mr Hyde My normal self and damaged side The former has been swept aside By plots of my own homicide There are no tears I haven’t cried And every cut is magnified All I have that’s left untried Is my beginner’s guide To suicide That is how I felt yesterday. It hurt everywhere and every how. But today I pull my battered carcass out of the trenches and I'm okay. I'm not great, but I'm okay. Stay strong people. It can feel like there is no way out but that final trapdoor. But it does turn. It DOES turn. If you feel like I felt yesterday, then remember you can feel like I feel today.

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Je Suis Tout le Monde

Terrorists didn’t “attack Paris” last night. They attacked each and every one of us. And by “us” I mean everyone on this planet who simply wants live alongside other humans, and not care what colour they are, where they come from, or who they pray to. But the thing that shows them that they won’t win, is when their mindless violence only serves to bring us closer. When it doesn’t make us break our stride. When every single one of us works to eliminate the divisions that lie between us. Because it is these very divisions that are the oxygen that they breath. #JeSuisToutLeMonde

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John Oliver slams GOP candidates who blame mass shootings on mental health

I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, “My God, they’re purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?” And he said, “Mister, I don’t sell to fish.”

Charlie Munger

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Steve Jobs

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I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Abraham H. Maslow

"How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep."

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

We believe in God. Everyone else pays cash.

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“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Writing Tips

I like writing. It is cheaper than therapy, and no more ineffective. But what I enjoy even more than writing, is reading about how I can improve my writing. Don’t get me wrong, I rarely ever apply any of this advice, but I do find it fascinating. I plan to regularly update this post with links I have found to such nuggets of perfectly ignorable information...

Here is the Guardian’s “10 Rules for Writing” from various dignitaries:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one

And then there is a good selection of resources from Maria Popova on her brain pickings.org site:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/

Just realise that most of these contradict each other, and some contradict themselves. People who have visited the world of writing before can describe the terrain for you, and draw the map - but only you know where you are going, and only you know what is important to you.

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Write drunk, edit sober.

Ernest Hemingway

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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