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This is about things that are new. Or old things that have become new again. Things that make you feel like you've just found a shiny, new penny.
Shiny New Penny
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theparisreview: “Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravated circumstances.” Mark Twain’s advice to little girls, illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky. For more of this morning’s round up, click here.
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poetryeater: The quote I had tacked to my board while I was writing Lit is from Samuel Beckett, and it’s really helpful: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail better.” - Mary Karr, from Why We Write
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theparisreview: What if all possiblepain was only the grief of truth? The throb lingeringonly in the exit wounds though the entries were the onesthat couldn’t close. As if either of those was the most real of an assortmentof realities—existing, documented, hanging like the sentencedunder one sky’s roof. But my feelings, well,they had no such proof. —Brenda Shaughnessy, from “All Possible Pain”Art Credit Dan Witz, “Mosh Pits”
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flocksandherds: illustration by Anja Zaharanski
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flocksandherds: Walking with a bucket in mouth; light-gray horse, Eagle by Eadweard J. Muybridge 1884—1887
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theparisreview: “That remains, for me, the best thing about reading Vonnegut. You know you’re having a good time, but you also know you’re not.”Read more of our Kurt Vonnegut roundtable with Ben Greenman, Rick Moody, Avi Steinberg, David Holub, and Josip Novakovich here.Illustration Credit Glass of Chocolate.
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theparisreview: Claire Moon’s Portrait (II)   1.  There is always the possibility that everything in her first portrait is false.   2.  This possibility may mean Claire is more complex than we at first thought. —Norman Luck, from “The Love of Stanley Marvel”Art Credit Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline with Flowers, 1954.