May 2012
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The Small Demons Blog: Maugham/Nietzche/Ledger →
smalldemonsblog:
Maugham/Nietzche/Ledger
I saw that Roy was not inclined to be amused. I was not annoyed, for I am quite used to people not being amused at my jokes. I often think that the purest type of artist is the humorist who laughs alone at his own jokes.
Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
Our supreme insights must—and should!—sound like follies, in certain cases like crimes, when they...
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“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It’s one of...”
– Carlos Fuentes (via booklover)
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April 2012
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March 2012
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“The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules...”
– David Mamet from On Directing Film
W. W. Norton: Why do you think “consumed” is an... →
wwnorton:
I think it’s an ugly term when applied to information. When you talk about consuming information you are talking about information as a commodity, rather than information as the substance of our thoughts and our communications with other people. To talk about consuming it, I think you lose a…
February 2012
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“The infinitely small, when it reaches a certain point of perfection, is as great...”
– Jaun Ramón Jiménez from The Complete Perfectionist (trans. by Christopher Maurer)
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“Writing is gratitude. It is like writing a thank you note to the world.”
– Pam Houston read the full interview at full-stop.net (via wwnorton)
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Leonard Cohen on Meditation →
crashinglybeautiful:
“…You run through your top ten erotic fantasies, ambition fantasies, revenge fantasies, global ratification fantasies. You run through them all until you bore yourself to death, basically, and the faculty that produces opinions and snap judgments and unrealistic scenarios for your own…
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“The only way is to annihilate all that’s been written. That can be done only...”
– Kathy Acker from My Mother: demonology, a novel
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Red Lemonade: Submit your work: Hybrid Beasts →
New earthquakes in form: Molly Gaudry, author of We Take Me Apart, is guest editing “Hybrid Beasts.” Writers, check it out:
redlmnd:
Red Lemonade, an imprint of Cursor, is proud to announce a crowdsourced, mongrel, interagency, multi-editorial, recombinant publishing excursion for 2012. The working title of the publication shall be Hybrid Beasts. Publication of the hybrid collection...
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“My only two weapons: time and silence.”
– Jaun Ramón Jiménez from The Complete Perfectionist
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different...”
– William James (via libraryland)
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“‘My middle-aged memories of the house by the sea, like the photographs my family...”
– Lorin Stein, picking Red Lemonade’s soon-to-be-published collection of Matthew Battles’s stories, The Sovereignties of Invention, as a staff pick over at The Paris Review (via redlmnd)
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We are at work on the past to make the future more bearable.
Mark Strand from Dark Harbor, VII
January 2012
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“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a persons conscience.”
– Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird (via amazinglinesinbooks)
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“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth...”
– Sigmund Freud via SocialFuckUp
“Let me hear the wind paging through the trees
and see the stars flaring out,...”
– Edward Hirsch, from “I Was Never Able to Pray” (via proustitute)
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“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
– William Blake (via anidridecarbonica)
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“If you were a fully realized person—whatever the hell that would be—you wouldn’t...”
– William Gass (via theparisreview)
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Creativity
terrakate:
e.e. cummings said: “To destroy is always the first step in any creation.” Circumstances change abruptly in order for a new way of living and creating to develop.
You can mourn the life you lost, or you can move on and make a new one.
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“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of...”
– Sherman Alexie (via teachingliteracy)
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via kaitmaree)
December 2011
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“Fiction gives life its form.”
– Jean Anouilh
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Notes on Theatre
lareviewofbooks:
Today The Dial is guest-written by playwright John Steppling, who has produced an evocative, idiosyncratic, wide-ranging set of “Notes on Theatre,” from which I have extracted the following series of aphorisms. They hearken back to the manifestos of the modernists in their radical rethinking of their subject and their manic and principled disregard for what you or I might...
“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”
– Jim Henson (via jtwilly)
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Keira Knightley's Vagina
thenewinquiry:
A Dangerous Method taps the allure of sexual dysfunction
by Kartina Richardson
David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method opens with the ominous notes of a cello, that, leading out of the opening credits, give way to a horn and string crescendo and the disturbing first scene: Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) arrives screaming, restrained by men, in a black carriage...
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Watch
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WatchOr watch the interview with Dalkey Archive founder John O’Brien here.