MissMeliss | January 24, 2009
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. ~Joseph Addison Cafe Writing asks us to: “Take nine minutes (use all nine, but don’t go over), and write on [...]
MissMeliss | November 9, 2008
I don’t want to own anything until I know I’ve found the place where me and things belong together. I’m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it’s like…. It’s like Tiffany’s…. Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it’s tacky to wear diamonds before you’re [...]
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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