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)
“Easy reading is damn hard writing”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via ninagarcia)
P.G. Wodehouse / Crime | Tom Gauld
casualoptimist:
via flickr.com
How Members of Congress Get Rich Through 'Honest... →
A 60 Minutes report on Sunday examined the ways that members of Congress trade on inside, privileged information to make themselves rich — without breaking any laws. Even though many positions in the federal government are bound by conflict of interest laws, Congresspeople are exempt from insider trading rules and are perfectly free to make business deals based on information they...
