#am lit

[gertieparr]

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

[featheredstudies]

2017-10-20 // 17:54

basking in that fall aesthetic

[gertieparr]

Quiet people have the LOUDEST minds.

Stephen King

[gertieparr]

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written.

Ernest Hemingway

[youngfloydjr-blog]

The crucible

The universal conflict of story The crucible is lying. in the story, John proctor had an affair with Abigail and didn’t tell his wife and he tried to justify it in court and says Abigail is just as guilty as him. At the end of of the story, John is hung. In real life it’s better to tell the truth then lie and make it worse for yourself including wrecking your reputation.

[underneaththewater]

Studying American lit tonight, first sentence I read describing Adrienne Rich:

Lived part of her life as suppressed lesbian. 

It will only go downhill from here.

[nacho-gyal]

When you have one drink and suddenly you're a social butterfly who has the confidence of kanye

[alphabetizing]

We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once. I have been alone while I was with many girls and that is the way that you can be most lonely. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms (1929)