February 2012
10 posts
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January 2012
7 posts
“Not only have I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what...”
– (via themanrepeller)
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their...”
– Aristotle (via boticca)
W. W. Norton: [Ray Hill] came out to his family... →
wwnorton:
[Ray Hill] came out to his family when he was eighteen. His mother took a long drag from her cigarette and a sip of her coffee and said, “Well, that’s a relief.” “What?” he asked. Late 1950s Houston was not a tolerant time and place for homosexuals, especially in the blue-collar, religiously…
“Themes recur again and again in my work. I have been poor and I wanted to...”
– Photojournalist Eve Arnold Dies at 99 (via Huffington Post)
December 2011
20 posts
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via vineetkaur)
“Urban sprawl is bad. Intellectual sprawl is good. Giving up the previous leads...”
– Frank Chimero (via vineetkaur)
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live; she read books as...”
– Annie Dillard, The Living (via thebronzemedal)
“Got 99 Problems and a Silver Cow-Creamer most assuredly is one”
– P.Z. Woodhova (via wwnorton)
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“One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn...”
– Malcolm X (via streetetiquette)
November 2011
50 posts
“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings...”
– - The Prince and the Pauper Happy Birthday Mark Twain! (via nypl)
“Hs previous books “Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” and “Between...”
– Habermas, the Last European: A Philosopher’s Mission to Save the EU - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
It’s worth noting that Der Spiegel has a circulation in Germany of 1.1 million, which is equivalent to a magazine like Time or Newsweek selling more than 4 million copies a week. And yet it...
“What happened is, we grew lonely
living among the things,
so we gave the clock...”
– Lisel Mueller, Things (via thebronzemedal)
