January 2012
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“Not only have I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what...”
– (via themanrepeller)
Jan 9th
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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their...”
– Aristotle (via boticca)
Jan 9th
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Jan 7th
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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…
Jan 7th
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“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)
Jan 6th
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 27th
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“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)
Dec 26th
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Dec 6th
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“Urban sprawl is bad. Intellectual sprawl is good. Giving up the previous leads...”
– Frank Chimero (via vineetkaur)
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live; she read books as...”
– Annie Dillard, The Living (via thebronzemedal)
Dec 1st
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“Got 99 Problems and a Silver Cow-Creamer most assuredly is one”
– P.Z. Woodhova (via wwnorton) yesssssssss
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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“One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn...”
– Malcolm X    (via streetetiquette)
Dec 1st
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November 2011
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“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)
Nov 30th
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“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...
Nov 28th
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Nov 22nd
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“What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock...”
– Lisel Mueller, Things (via thebronzemedal)
Nov 21st
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Nov 17th
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“Easy reading is damn hard writing”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via ninagarcia)
Nov 14th
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P.G. Wodehouse / Crime | Tom Gauld
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Nov 14th
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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...
Nov 14th
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Nov 11th
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