May 2011
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“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human...”
– George Orwell, 1984
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March 2011
5 posts
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“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will...”
– Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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“Like a trained and performing tortoise,/ I would make verse in your fashion, if...”
– Ezra Pound, Difference of Opinion with Lygdamus
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“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-five
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“Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
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So Rosalie and I have been painting these matryoshkas. I drew the outlines on them and she began painting. She painted the biggest one so far, and I started painting the tiniest one because I was done with drawing the outlines.
February 2011
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“[Research] isn’t looking for a better cigarette filter or a softer face...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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“Beyond this literal forgetting of animals by eating them, animal bodies were,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
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“There is the question of who I really am, the tiger or the trainer. Am I this...”
– Joe Wenderoth, Letters to Wendy’s
January 2011
11 posts
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“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak...”
– George Carlin, from his appearance on Inside the Actor’s Studio
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“I’ve always hated generation gaps. I always feel sorry for a parent or a...”
– Paul McCartney, “Many Years From Now”
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gestation, then birthing
A few days ago, my friend, Dave, sent me a text message with a quote from the writer Rainer Maria Rilke. It read, “Everything is gestation and then birthing.” I related it specifically to creativity, and I’m sure that’s how Dave intended for me to read it. As someone so obsessed with productivity, I tend to strain myself a bit too much creatively, and reach near-dry periods...
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“Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top till he came to his own...”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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“The reasonable, sensitive soul who perhaps one day while taking his rest along...”
– Paul Harding, Tinkers
“Why, a four-year-old child could understand this. Someone get me a four-year-old...”
– Groucho Marx
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“You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the...”
– The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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December 2010
5 posts
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“Both the artistic and scientific enterprises are the product of our need to...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan
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“I don’t particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a...”
– The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals…they are so placid...”
– excerpt from Leaves of Grass, by WALT WHITMAN.
November 2010
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“The reason prefer the sledgehammer to the rapier and the reason I believe in...”
– Last Words, George Carlin
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“A house is just Stuff with a cover on it.”
– George Carlin
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“I assumed he had seen plenty of lunatics in his travels and would prefer them,...”
– Thieves & Mapmakers, Leni Zumas
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“Habitually he values whatever he does not understand, but he is by no means...”
– I am a Cat, by Soseki Natsume
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“Nobody at all, not even Alexander the Great or Napoleon, has ever felt satisfied...”
– I am a Cat, Soseki Natsume
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“But you just had a certain amount of time. You knew when the recording date was...”
– Paul McCartney, Many Years from Now. Talking about the pressures of writing with a deadline for the HARD DAY’S NIGHT film.
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“When I say ‘original idea,’ I mean someone [John or I] might have...”
– Paul McCartney
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“I’m afraid I’m gonna die, I don’t know what’s wrong with...”
– Synecdoche, NY
October 2010
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“Though I am undoubtedly a cat, I possess a wide general knowledge of the nature...”
– I Am a Cat, by Soseki Natsume
September 2010
2 posts
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“without your word, you’re a shell of a man.”
– tupac
August 2010
13 posts
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“Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal to...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, “Everything is Illuminated.”
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“One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take...”
– blow-up, Julio Cortazar
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“What she does not clutch is that I already do things for her that I...”
– jonathan safran foer, “everything is illuminated.”
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There’s always something in the way they move that attracts you like no other lover
Maxwall did it. With the silver hammer. In the courtroom
They’ll never do you no harm
It IS possible to live with an Octopus
They do WANT you.
The sun coming out really does make life less crazy
The…
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“I don’t make copies ‘cause I’m the boss. I make originals.”
– Michael Scott
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