March 2012
February 2012
“There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it;...”
– Dorothy Parker, as quoted in The Paris Review
kateoplis: “Fiction’s about what it is to be a... →
“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being,” he once said. Good writing should help readers to “become less alone inside.” Wallace’s desire to write “morally passionate, passionately moral fiction,” as he put it in a 1996 essay on Dostoyevsky, presented him with a number of…
“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
“The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.”
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Magic Mountain →
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A trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Feb 2012
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“I toughed it out hoping that it would get better and it finally did…it ended.”
– The Best of the Worst Netflix Reviews of Best Picture Nominees
“For me, finance is intimidating. When the chalkboard starts to look like...”
– Can we please have a moratorium on beautiful women saying “math is hard”? I simply can’t imagine someone like Ashton Kutcher saying something like this. Never mind the fact that it’s horrible from a role-model perspective, it’s just plain annoying.
What Tyra Banks Learned at Harvard - Businessweek
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“My job description as I have defined it is to save Western civilization.”
– Newt Gingrich, 1979 address to congressional staff.
Biggest photo of the night sky ever →
If you need me for the rest of today, I’ll be over here, mesmerized.
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“But suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is...”
– Joseph Campbell
