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Superman!

Superman from DC is Christian!

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Finnick and Peeta in THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2

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TO A SCHOOLGIRL IN AMERICA, who had written (at her teacher's suggestion) to request advice on writing.

14 December 1959

It is very hard to give any general advice about writing. Here's my attempt.

(1) Turn off the Radio.

(2) Read all the good books you can, and avoid nearly all magazines.

(3) Always write (and read) with the ear, not the eye. You shd. hear every sentence you write as if it was being read aloud or spoken. If it does not sound nice, try again.

(4) Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)

(5) Take great pains to be clear. Remember that though you start by knowing what you mean, the reader doesn't, and a single ill-chosen word may lead him to a total misunderstanding. In a story it is terribly easy just to forget that you have not told the reader something that he wants to know—the whole picture is so clear in your mind that you forget that it isn't the same in his.

(6) When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.

(7) Don't use a typewriter. The noise will destroy your sense of rhythm, which still needs years of training.

(8) Be sure you know the meaning (or meanings) of every word you use.

-C. S. Lewis

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everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her

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Favourite Designs: Frieda Lepold "A Knights Dress" Haute Couture Gown

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“All through the day Yahweh has commanded His endless love to pour over me. Through the night I sing His songs and my praises to the living God.”

‭‭// Psalms‬ ‭42‬:‭8‬

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scientists: oh hey we found a new species of deep sea feather star, neat :)

the news: TERRIFYING and ALIEN creature with ONE THOUSAND ARMS discovered LURKING in the DEEP ABYSS of the sea

the public: omg im never swimming in the ocean again!!!

the animal:

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this made me think of you

Hey quick question, how do you believe something when everything in you is screaming that it's wrong? Asking for a friend

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YOU'VE CRACKED IT

I do think Lara is Sophie's "real" (birth) name, not because Gina confirmed it via Twitter, but because it seems clear to me that she writes Lara on the napkin she gives Nate for Christmas at the end of The Ho Ho Ho Job, after he gives her the "your name here" pendant. Her Christmas present to him is her "real" name. Still, when he uses it in his proposal, she tells him it's not her real name, because it's not anymore. Because Sophie is Sophie's actual real name. That's the name she uses with the team, her family, it's the name she marries Nate under, and it's the person she chooses, every day, to be. Whoever she was in the past, however many aliases she went by and characters she built, all the lives she lived, she is Sophie now.

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Just saw a video saying that Jesus didn't invent Christianity; the apostle Paul did. That alone is an absolutely incorrect take and anyone who has read the book of Acts could most definitely refute all of his takes. I tried to at least listen to all of his arguments, but about halfway through the video, I had to stop for a minute because I literally burst into tears laughing, because this guy said the apostle Paul invented Christianity "for his own personal gain." For his own personal gain. The apostle Paul proclaimed a message that got him CONSTANTLY imprisoned, STONED on at least one occasion, and LITERALLY WHIPPED ALMOST TO DEATH FIVE TIMES, and went through all of that FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL GAIN???

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u ever have a stress dream so crazy u wake up feelin like scrooge being given a second chance at life

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god i love looking at art……….literally colors and lines man……..so revolutionary………completely life changing………….