November 2011
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Grace Lee Boggs
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There are two silences. One when no word is spoken. The other when perhaps a...
– Harold Pinter (via aninsufferableknowitall)
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Don’t break news that we haven’t published, no matter the format
– AP Guidebook, writing its own epitaph.
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AL: you graduated from therapy?
MG: i know. its crazy.
AL: in the workshop of the mind, you are as bob vila.
MG: don't vila-fy me.
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I find all this soulless. I cannot hear you. The buttons are too small.
– Henry Moore
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– For too long now we have been estranged from the essential, which is the nomadic life: travelling on foot. A distinction must be made between hiking and travelling on foot. In today’s society… I personally would rather do the existentially essential things in my life on foot. If you live in England...
The very point where sense begins to break down is also where it begins to open...
– Cole Swensen. “Artist’s Statement.” Lyric Postmodernisms. Ed. Reginald Shepherd. p. 230. (via zypxtflo)
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I am trying to get at something so simple
that I have to talk plainly
so the...
– From ‘Self-Portrait at 28’ by David Berman
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please congratulate me.
This is my 200th post in the 2 years of maintaining this tumblr, making it the most significant personal relationship I have had with the internet since ICQ (member #22293837471000397895747373772243334269583).
I know you guys have questions about how I do it, I wonder this myself. Is today a day to write a blog post? Yes! Is tomorrow? I don’t know! What about next week? Probably! What...
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Make sure they have a pillow and Drambuie on the helicopter.
– Hank Kingsley
Dear god, I love the Larry Sanders Show.
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Joan Didion's "The Santa Ana"
“There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes, blowing up sand storms out along Route 66, drying the hills and the nerves to flash point. For a few days now we will see smoke back in the...
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Serious Righteous. →
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