July 2011
11 posts
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Dreams that Money Can Buy, Hans Richter (1947)
You could also see it here tonight, Los Angeles.
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The conversations in the Cooper books have a curious sound in our modern ears....
– Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses, Mark Twain.
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Ideas, when they get like that, then you can really get into the game of reason....
– Robert Irwin
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It is not possible, abstractly, to moralize to the advantage of a society. Art...
– The universal, the specific. Joaquim Machado de Assis
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on enthusiasm
“It’s not that this or that means something to me but that this!—or that!— means something to me.”
-Lyn Hejinian, from “The Fatalist”