May 2012
3 posts
5 tags
“Everything will pass, but my happiness, dear, my happiness will remain, in the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, A Letter That Never Reached Russia
6 tags
“I am too alone in this world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.”
– Rilke
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“The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch...”
– William Faulkner
April 2012
8 posts
5 tags
“I begin to suspect that a man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
6 tags
“my ignorance of you amazes me
now that I watch you
starting to give yourself...”
– Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change
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“But we who serve Art,
sometimes with the mind’s intensity,
can create...”
– C.P. Cavafy
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“Oh, life! ‘tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to...”
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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“From the moment she was born people had been happy to tell her what to do, down...”
– Deborah Eisenberg, The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor
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“It is necessary to have had a revelation of reality through joy in order to find...”
– Simone Weil
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“If no one thought about Hamlet, there would be nothing left of him … if no...”
– Bertrand Russell on the difference between fact and fiction
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“It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our...”
– Seymour Krim
March 2012
21 posts
5 tags
“Music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the...”
– Wassily Kandinsky
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“I had this three-minute rule that if you just shut up and let someone talk,...”
– Errol Morris
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“I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The...”
– TS Eliot, 3. Preludes
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“I have a theory about why the National Enquirer is more reliable than the New...”
– Errol Morris
“If the dinosaurs had a space program, they’d still be here.”
– Astronaut Ron Garan in his Reddit AMA thread
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“Love is what is left when you let go of all the things you love.”
– Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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“Instead of shooting arrows at someone else’s target, which I’ve...”
– Brian Eno
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“Professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because...”
– Michael Donaghy
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“A Rainbow.
There are such things. I straighten myself.”
– Buddhist poem
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“There are men whose faces are the most indecent parts of their whole bodies, and...”
– Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos
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“Death has its element of fantasy, just as life does.”
– Sándor Márai, Embers
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“Awe - what was that supposed to be? A fit of shivers when you looked out the...”
– Alice Munro, The Moons of Jupiter
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“I sense in my blood the rotation of unexplorable universes … Listen - I...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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“Q. What is a gentleman?
A. A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.”
– An interview with Tom Waits
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“I came some time ago to think of despair and victimization as being at the...”
– Saul Bellow
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“The question is not: how much are you going to get out of it? Nor is it: how...”
– John Cage, X
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“One observer is forcibly struck by the multiplication of physical comforts; the...”
– John Stuart Mill
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume X
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“We are now trapped in a world of kids. Old kids. The disappearance of...”
– Michel Houellebecq
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“He said - I wonder how that sentence runs - that everything in the world is a...”
– Borges on De Quincey
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“I think that to praise or dispraise, to enchant or disenchant, both of which...”
– Grace Cavalieri’s interview with Robert Hass
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January 2011
7 posts
Do all horoscopes just say the same thing? →
“Imagine you inadvertently enter a bathroom where a woman is standing naked under...”
– Baisers volés, via the new Žižek article on Wikileaks
“For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in...”
– Melville
Operating System Icons Reimagined as Batman... →
