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MastersonSean

  1. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves...... about 18 hours ago via HootSuite
  2. Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. Kafka about 19 hours ago via HootSuite
  3. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? -Kafka to Pollak about 20 hours ago via HootSuite
  4. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe. -Kafka to Pollak about 21 hours ago via HootSuite
  5. Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. -Kafka to Pollak about 21 hours ago via HootSuite
  6. What reading does best is it leaves us alone in the presence of what nurtures us most. -Paul Holdengräber about 22 hours ago via HootSuite
  7. It was when I could not turn the baby swing's music off that I let go my tenuous grasp on sanity... 6:52 PM May 23rd via HootSuite
  8. RT @blackclockmag: Lovely essay by Black Clock contributor Tara Ison therumpus.net/2012/05/flesh-… 11:32 AM May 21st via HootSuite
  9. Gass on ideas: In short, between these rare and wonderful gifts from the gods, a chain gang's labor. 11:01 AM May 21st via HootSuite
  10. Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean. -Raymond Chandler 9:10 AM May 21st via HootSuite
  11. Took a walk down to the park at lunch. Amazing how that particular patch of grass can take you away from it instagr.am/p/Kz9xbMyy6o/ 7:43 AM May 19th via Instagram
  12. Cabazon, CA instagr.am/p/Kkoh-Tyy0r/ 8:48 AM May 13th via Instagram
  13. Phil's first trip on HWY 10. instagr.am/p/Kik9QVSy8p/ 1:38 PM May 12th via Instagram
  14. "Life is a business that does not cover its costs". -Schopenhauer 9:16 AM May 9th via HootSuite
  15. An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire... Michel Houellebecq 9:02 AM May 7th via HootSuite
  16. Christening of USNS Cesar Chavez instagr.am/p/KRMeRTyy_Z/ 7:38 PM May 5th via Instagram
  17. I don’t advocate anything to the young writer except the loneliness with a pencil and a white sheet of paper. -Hannah ow.ly/aHPjj 9:33 AM May 4th via HootSuite
  18. I am enjoying the word harangue. It elicits a feeling like that of holding a tire iron or large mallet: With this, I could do some damage. 9:02 AM May 4th via HootSuite
  19. "I am a God in nature, I am a weed by the wall." -Emerson, via Gass in "Life Sentences" 2:35 PM May 3rd via HootSuite
  20. Harangued by stranger w/ the voice of a Roger Rabbit weasel about news of the day while walking to my car. Weirder the day the better. 12:22 PM May 3rd via HootSuite
  • Name Sean Masterson
  • Location San Diego, CA
  • Bio Writer, Photographer, Web / Graphic Designer. Father of Phil. Looking for something good to read. Founder of http://TheLetterPunch.com #TheLetterPunch
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