"Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet." — Joe Abercrombie, The Devils (2025)
Updated the format for sharing, but been making good progress even though the weekend is coming to a close.
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@n0madz I need to learn who Banjo Telemark is, immediately.
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New sharing variant, new public book contributor, it's a good time to check out https://locuscommunis.com
"But there was winter in my heart and I was looking for the door to summer." — Robert A. Heinlein, The Door into Summer (1956)
Also happens to be my favorite way to think about the weekend!
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"The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better." — Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy (2016)
A commonplace book is just a place to keep the words that will not leave you alone.
Built one if you want to start. Visit locuscommunis.com
"Before she knew any better, Florence Nightingale was fearless." — Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (2021)
A commonplace book is just a place to keep the words that will not leave you alone.
Built one if you want to start. Visit locuscommunis.com
new on my blog: The essential question
https://sylvia.studio/the-essential-question
#Commonplace-book #Writing
"He knew that kindliness and generosity were as universal as deception and cut-throat competition." - Robert A. Heinlein, Robert James, Spider Robinson, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs (2003)
A commonplace book is just a place to keep the words that won't leave you alone.
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)
More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
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I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is…
@johnjohnston you'll be pleased to know #Commonplace now pulls through Flickr previews.
#Commonplace now has a bookmarklet that allows you to choose which collection to add a link into.
Try it out: https://commonplace.dynamicskillset.com
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