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If you’re writing something and it obviously strikes you as false, you can’t write it. And so by writing, you discover what seems true to you. What seems real. It’s a way of thinking through things.
— Sheila Heti interviewed by Emily Keeler (via thenewinquiry)
Mitt Romney’s new iPhone app, misspelling America. (via @thischoi)
From the first time we step into an English class, we’re told that the rules matter, that they must be followed, that we must know when it’s appropriate to use a comma and what it means to employ the subjunctive mood. But do these things really matter? Outside of the classroom, what difference does it make if we write “who” instead of “whom” or say “good” instead of “well”?
Ryan Bloom breaks down the language wars in his post, “Inescapably, You’re Judged by Your Language”: http://nyr.kr/M2IOWy
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, “You’re all a lost generation.” That got around to certain people and we all said, Whee! We’re lost. Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don’t forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren’t. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.
— Dorothy Parker on “the lost generation” and hard work, part of The Paris Review’s fantastic historic interviews. (via explore-blog)
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That scene was a really, really tough scene to film. They didn’t tell me they were going to do this but Phil told Jon to hold on to my hand and not let it go. And then he did and I really sort of lost it… and I will say that every single one of those tears was actually absolutely real.
— Elisabeth Moss, Inside Episode 511
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…and The Onion for the win, forever.
(via TheNoobYorker)
