June 2010
28 posts
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“They sing songs of their devotion to the control box. They sing: We are...”
– Regan Good, The Book of Nature, “Monument Of Mind And Matter.”
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“Attack the story like a radiant suicide, utter the great NO to life without...”
– Michel Houellebecq, H. P. Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Life.
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“You reach for a word as you reach for an itch.”
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
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“Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.”
– Eckhart Tolle.
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“The symbol may, with Emerson’s sphynx, say to man, Of thine eye, I am...”
– Charles Sanders Pierce.
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“Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
– Fedor Dostoevski (via hypersexualgirl)
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“This text, then, is also the piece, perhaps a piece of counterfeit money, that...”
– Jacques Derrida, On Given Time I: Counterfeit Money.
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“The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more...”
– Freeman Dyson.
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“Never yet has truth hung on the arm of the unconditional.”
– Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via fuckyeahthusspokezarathustra) (via dystopium)
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“Almost always, attached to the idea of a conversation which might clear up a...”
– Marcel Proust (via fuckyeahproust) (via dystopium)
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“To be civilized is to know that one is potentially a barbarian.”
– Pascal Bruckner (via dystopium)
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“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
– Samuel Johnson (via hypersexualgirl)
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“Rather know nothing than half-know much! Rather be a fool on one’s own than a...”
– Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via fuckyeahthusspokezarathustra) (via dystopium)
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“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to...”
– William S. Burroughs (via hypersexualgirl)
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“Writing: as if I had the urge to go on enjoying, to feel full, to push, to feel...”
– Hélène Cixous, “Coming to Writing.”
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“Through hummus, we can achieve so much.”
– Majdi Wadi, Holy Land hummus.
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“A dark light that falls from no star and emanates such sadness”
– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (via thirdfear)
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“—Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north, flaring in heaven; Nor...”
– Exerpt from Walt Whitman’s Year of Meteors, 1859
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“Where is the heart? Where is the heart? The heart will thus be, in the future,...”
– Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death, (writing of Jesus).
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“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.”
– Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
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“My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper,...”
– William Faulkner.
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“The poet is two people. One is an insignificant person, leading the most...”
– Andrei Voznesensky.
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“The palest ink is better than the best memory.”
– Chinese Proverb.
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“Yes: we were there, we were all there, the film’s entire crew and señor...”
– Javier Marías, Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico. (Best final clause ever—”I mean a flow chart.”)
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“Science as such is like everything else; madness is as intrinsic to it as...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus.
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“It may surprise some of my young friends to learn that the grizzly bear is to be...”
– Horatio Alger, Joe’s Luck: Always Wide Awake. From Chapter XXXIV: Grizzly on the War-Path.
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“The historian’s view is conditioned, always and everywhere, by his own location...”
– Arnold J. Toynbee, Hitler’s Europe.
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“[The dream] never left me, and split into a thousand fantastic variations, which...”
– De Quincey.
May 2010
39 posts
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“Blanc avant rouge, rien ne bouge.
[White wine before red wine, nothing moves...”
– French wisdom on vomit, courtesy writer CJ Hauser.
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“We can be human, but also pigs, or gods, or lizards…”
– Francesco Pellizzi.
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“Hic lapis exilis extat precio quoque vilis
Spurnitur a stultis, amartur plus ab...”
– Arnold of Villanova.
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“…History never effaces what it buries; it always keeps within itself the secret...”
– Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death, p. 21.
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“This crocodile was stuffed by the Indians in Brazil. Those tribesmen are...”
– Mishima Yukio, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, p. 103.
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“The human being has nothing more to go on than a collection of nerve stimuli. ...”
– Nietzche, tran. Gayatri Spivak, Translator’s Preface to Derrida’s Of Grammatology. (Nietzsche’s last term is sometimes translated, erroneously, “aesthetic anthropomorphisms.”)
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“Emotional value doesn’t transfer across generations. People don’t inherit...”
– Robert Edsel.
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“Vision evolved mainly to discover objects and to defeat camouflage.”
– VS Ramachandran: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lecture3.shtml.
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““Sadness of Parting”
The barber was cutting our hair, and our eyes...”
– E. B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner.
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“That I may time transcend, that a universe my heart may unfold.”
– Daruma (and Murakami Takashi).
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“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the...”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Oak and the Calf.
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“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
– Edgar Allan Poe.
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“Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats—all human life is there.”
– Henry James.
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“Notwithstanding the purity of thy life, notwithstanding that constant rule of...”
– Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews.
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“April 19, 1997
It is rare for a baby to be so bad that it is sentenced to be...”
– Joe Wenderoth, Letters To Wendy’s.
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“She was the naked, clear kernel thrusting forth the clear, powerful shoot, and...”
– D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow.
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“Time farted.”
– John Ashbery, Selected Poems, “Variations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox,” p. 98.
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“Therefore, Khufu does not sorrow over death, nor does he dread it. Death is a...”
– Naguib Mahfouz, Khufu’s Wisdom.
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“What had muddled him was precisely the small artist-man’s way—it was so...”
– Henry James, The Ambassadors.
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“The man who decides to forge a distinct historical destiny, who sets out to...”
– Philip Roth, The Human Stain.
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“Persons find in new words and
new combinations the sins
that most easily...”
– Jacqueline Waters, The Garden of Eden A College.