August 2011
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“Only after they charged him with the crime of silence did Babel discover how...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“If you think about it, reading is a necessarily individual act, far more than...”
– from Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler. (via viafrank)
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“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“We be of one blood, Thou and I”
– Mowgli (Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, via Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things)
“He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from,...”
– Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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ana-ng-deactivated20120626 asked: SEE YOU IN TWO DAYS WHAT
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“One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do...”
– Stephen Pinker, The Language Instinct
q.v. David Foster “Did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of U.S. lexicography reveals ideological strife and controversy and intrigue and nastiness and fervor on a nearly hanging-chad scale?” Wallace
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“‘In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing,’...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
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“We need to remember the value of nothing. It’s like breathing: you can’t inhale...”
– Sam Anderson
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Anonymous asked: I know you have Get Clicky and you probably think I'm crazy, but I just think you're interesting. I'm complex just like you.
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“Industrialized societies, as we know, draw still farther back from the natural...”
– Robert Bringhurst, “Everywhere Being Is Dancing”
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Joy is the only answer.
Watchviafrank:
Obligatory Tune Yards reblog. Incredible.
Tune Yards performing Gangsta with Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
via Austin Kleon.
