June 2013
Digg Blog: Digg Reader Update! →
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Over the last 90 days, the Digg engineering team — all 5 of them — has been heads-down building an updated take on the RSS reader. For our first public release, in time to (just) beat the shutdown of Google Reader, our aim has been to nail the basics: a web and mobile reading experience that is…
“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”
—Geraldine Brooks, from March (Penguine, 2006)
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.”
—Maurice Sendak (via bookporn)
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
—Anaïs Nin
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“I think that’s at the heart of every friendship: “If I show you this, will you still love me? If I show you this, will you still be with me?”
—Susanna Sonnenberg (via thatkindofwoman)
“Worry gives small things a big shadow.”
—Swedish Proverb (via themeetcute)
Sometimes you just buy lots of books before you finish reading the ones you bought last time and you have your own mini-library of new stuff
Replace sometimes with everytime.
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Monday after the Game of Thrones Red Wedding reveal, I read a Rolling Stones piece where the author had no clue the song played was the Rains of Castemere, the title of the episode. So, of course, I had to point out that oversight. (Someone on the…
“Why can’t George R.R Martin tweet? He killed all 140 characters.”
—(via nicoletteandseth)
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“That was the hardest scene I’ve ever had to write. It’s two-thirds of the way through the book, but I skipped over it when I came to it. So the entire book was done and there was still that one chapter left. Then I wrote it. It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?”
—George R. R. Martin re: The Red Wedding (via lyndsayfaye)
¡larga vida a la emperatriz Heliogábalo!: tumblrofthrones: A Song of Ice and Fire is not about kings. It’s about... →
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A Song of Ice and Fire is not about kings. It’s about the people who surround, support and get stomped on by kings in quests for thrones and power. In older fantasy stories, the young kings are the heroes and lead characters, so George R.R. Martin subverted that by…
- age 11: worry about internet people finding me in real life
- now: worry about people in real life finding me on the internet
“The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions—sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments—both physical and emotional—unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss—another person’s shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.”
—Susan Cain (via bluishtigers)
“Data is the new Oil. Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used.”
—Social Media as a Stored Value Currency (via courtenaybird)
May 2013
Collected Quotes Apr-May 2013
My main page on quotes is Quotes to Make You Think. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. — Niccolò Machiavelli
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of…
You see, guys
If you’ve ever scrolled to the end of a longish post and thought, “Gosh, I like that enough to heart/reblog it” and then sighed in annoyance when you had to scroll back up to the top to do so
This update is for you. That’s why the shit is at the bottom. W00TLES.
Exactly. Dang you’re making sense or something.
And it ends all that TL;DR so I’ll just reblog it nonsense.
