Wednesday Apr 18 09:17pmSomething E.B. White Said
“In real life, a spider doesn’t spin words in her web. In real life, a swan doesn’t blow a trumpet. But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.”
Yeah, about “the test” -
The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world.
And it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship.
You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling through your twitter feed.
The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you’ll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric, and whether you’ll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context.
The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, make your life yours. And everything - EVERYTHING - will be on it.
John Green Sunday Feb 12 02:57pm
Monday Jan 23 10:20pmTumblr, I know we are all tumbly and everything, and cats and Paula Deen Riding Things and Ryan Gosling Reading YA, and that’s all great. It’s perfect, really. I wouldn’t want to change it.
But can we just take a moment right now to be grateful and astonished that we are alive and able to bear witness to the universe? Can we just spend like four seconds letting it sink in that we are here, together, amid something much larger than we can effectively imagine?
“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you’ll be so weak you won’t be able to believe the simplest true things.” -Lewis Carroll
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