January 2012
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Jan 27th
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“The confidence of a nation rests on trust and can endure for years after this...”
– Ron Suskind, from Confidence Men.
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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“Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You...”
– Lydia Davis, Head, Heart, from Varieties of Disturbance.
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“Having preferences means having weaknesses.”
– Magnus Carlsen
Jan 24th
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“Confusing the desire to display affection with affection, we applaud the...”
– Ben Lerner, from Angle of Yaw.
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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ListenFrom an essay by John D’Agata, read by...
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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“The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the...”
– Donald Barthelme
Jan 10th
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“To write poetry, one must waste a good deal of time, one must simply “be,” one...”
– Mary Ruefle
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 5th
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“The artist’s task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a...”
– James Agee
Jan 5th
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“Writing is not about having something to say. It’s about an intense relationship...”
– Tom McCarthy
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 2nd
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“Wouldn’t it be fine if endings could be abolished in favor of translations to...”
– William T. Vollmann
Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st
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“I don’t know whether The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is Tourettic or...”
– Jonathan Lethem, from Motherless Brooklyn.
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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“And all the spaces of our past moments of solitude, the spaces in which we have...”
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (via proustitute).
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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“I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me — and remembered...”
– Joan Mitchell
Dec 22nd
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Dec 17th
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“It’s Yeats who says you have to choose between the life and the work. You...”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 11th
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“Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later - the world has time....”
– David Foster Wallace, from The Pale King. (via whiskyriver)
Dec 8th
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“And I imagine […] with great pleasure […] all the horrible stirrings...”
– Alejandro Jodorowsky
Dec 8th
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ListenJon Stewart on looking for trouble.
Dec 5th
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st