September 2011
11 posts
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“The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes...”
– Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess (via itonaim)
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“Imagination is not a gift but an object of conquest par excellence”
– André Breton (via a-place-in-the-sun)
July 2011
9 posts
Bachmann Compares Self to Gay Rapist Clown Serial... →
minusmanhattan:
Great headline or greatest headline?
Kicking off her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, Michele Bachmann explained the geographic significance to Fox News: “Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.
“This is problematic, the Washington Times explains, because “beloved movie star” John Wayne...
“One of Portlandia’s catchphrases is that it’s “where young people go to retire,”...”
– A Twee Grows In Brooklyn in the Observer
(via brianvan)
What a perfect description. This piece on the hipsterfication and precious-ing of Brooklyn was entertaining and (from this distance) mystifying… if a little cynical. Also, I will always heart Portland.
(via beenthinking)
“The homepage on my web browser is Yahoo, which I’m told it shouldn’t...”
– Aaron Sorkin: What I Read - Business - The Atlantic Wire
“Kipling’s game theory lessons for Greece27 July 2011, Financial Times The game...”
– John Kay - Kipling’s game theory lessons for Greece
“If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I...”
– Pier Paolo Pasolini (via itnumberpi)
“The future is already here–it is just unevenly distributed.”
– William Gibson, the New Shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
“This continuous modification of man by his own technology stimulates him to find...”
– Marshall McLuhan in a March 1968 Playboy interview, quoted by Mark Larson. Do bees resent flowers? Do they bemoan the ubiquity of beckoning floral distractions? (via mills)
June 2011
3 posts
“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,” she said, “but that alone...”
– Franz Kafka (via wonderfulambiguity)
May 2011
13 posts
“We hear in retrospect what we have understood.”
– Marcel Proust (via fuckyeahproust)
“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”
– Pablo Neruda, Winter Garden (via liquidnight)
“… Exclamations have taken over the function of reasoning; it is true that the...”
– Jorge Luis Borges. An Essay On Neutrality. (thanks seeyoulateraggregator)
“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via dlpalinckx) 