it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

A 25-year-old bestselller author who doesn’t even like writing

" You rarely hear writers talk about the editing process,' he says. 'But editing is everything. The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciating. It's like the difference between having ...

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PR

" Sometimes PRs unwittingly give you a clue as to the story - 'Whatever you do, don't ask about her sister.' 'Of course,' you say gravely, while mentally shrieking, 'Her sister? What about her sister?' You go haring back to ...

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Wat sjit men der mei op?

De psychiater hat ris tsjin my sein: al dy boeken dy 't jo skreaun hawwe, dêr binne jo ek neat mei opsketten, wol? Ik tink dat er my út 'e tint lokje woe, of faaks wie er wol nidich op ...

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tips tegen doordraaien

" Op de bouwplaats zijn voorschriften over het maximaal te tillen gewicht. TNO wil onderzoeken of er ook maxima kunnen worden gesteld aan de hoeveelheid informatie die een brein mag verwerken." Bwoewahahahaha.Tien doe-het- zelf-tips om de stress te lijf te gaan.

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The Hague Invasion Act

I take this time to inform the House tongue in cheek that I have just been informed by an intelligence agency that the Netherlands are preparing for an invasion by the United States in response to the bill now before ...

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Unfortunately, like information, misinformation wants to be free

" Fifty years ago, it took a Nobel Prize to get the press and public to pay attention to a crank theory like Linus Pauling's notion that vitamin C could prevent the common cold. But, increasingly, all it seems to ...

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Jules Renard, Journal

Trop de vanité, trop d'impatience. Je ne veux pas me mettre moi-même en avant, mais ça m'ennuie qu'on ne vienne pas me chercher par la main de disant : « Voilà l'homme qu'il nous faut. » D'ailleurs, je refuserais de ...

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Nothing ever changes

Mencken continues. Government "invades his liberty and collars his money in order to protect him, but in actuality, it always makes a stiff profit on the exchange. This profit represents the income of the professional politicians, nine-tenths of whom are ...

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Weer een mythe ontkracht

" Snoep verstandig, eet een appel? Vergeet het maar. De combinatie van zuur en natuurlijke suikers, die tijdens het kauwen nog eens lekker door je mond worden verspreid, is veel schadelijker voor het glazuur dan een keer per dag een ...

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IDIOT, n.

A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He ...

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Deschooling Society

School initiates, too, the Myth of Unending Consumption. This modern myth is grounded in the belief that process inevitably produces something of value and, therefore, production necessarily produces demand. School teaches us that instruction produces learning. The existence of schools ...

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Beauty treatment

Botulinum toxin is ''the most poisonous substance known,'' according to The Journal of the American Medical Association. A single gram, evenly dispersed, could kill more than one million people, causing ''symmetric, descending, flaccid paralysis'' and eventually cutting off its victims' ...

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Time went on; things happened

" I read much less than I used to do; I think much more. Yet what is the use of thought which can no longer serve to direct life? Better perhaps to read and read incessantly, losing one's futile self ...

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Bloom’s Day

Though this sort of thing went on every other night or very near it still Stephen's feelings got the better of him in a sense though he knew that Corley's brandnew rigmarole on a par with the others was hardly ...

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Tips voor aspirant thriller-schrijvers

Naast het bureau van Iburg staat een metershoge stapel spannende manuscripten. Hij plukt er lukraak wat uit: een verhaal over een bendeleider die El Cappuccino heet, titels als Derrick bij nacht en Moord in de Ardennen. Een Big Brother-thriller over ...

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10 weirdest moments in tennis history

" But what really incensed the Americans was the moment when a supposedly impartial linesman openly massaged Tiriac's cramping leg and, unavailingly, urged him on to victory. "Jon Henderson, The Observer

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Greek Athletic Meet Announced

" Past participants will be happy to hear that we have a brand new javelin this year. "Nudist World Domination

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A week in the life of South Korea

" When North Korea entered World Cup legend with one of the competition's unlikeliest upsets at Italy's expense 36 years ago, news of it was censored in the South. As Seo Soo Min wrote in the Korean Times : 'As ...

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Whatever you put in, you get back in spades

I still have to look at the whole Velvet Underground period and balance it off. To see what was achieved since and before, and try to understand what happened with time. One of the things that you regret most is ...

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Up the Down Escalator

Our systematic capacity for change means that we are constantly in transit. We live in an upgrade culture, in which our satisfaction with our TV, computer or car is overshadowed by the knowledge that the next big thing is only ...

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Talkin’ about Tolkien

Such excitement, though at this moment I am trying to facilitate ingress to a packet of Skittles and by the time I surface Cate Blanchett is on screen, strolling about a woodland glade flaunting a pair of prosthetic ears and ...

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