Saturday, January 25, 2014
FVC
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Skewered.
— James Bond, Casino Royale
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Convinced that memory keeps everything, not just the Albertines and the great journals of the heart and the kidneys, I persisted in reconstructing the contents of my desk in Floresta.
— Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
I don’t quite grasp it entirely.
— Kristin
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Jimbo!
— John Silver, Treasure Planet
Monday, January 20, 2014
You can’t steal something that’s already been stolen
— Lord Grantham, “Christmas Special (2013)," Downton Abbey
Sunday, January 19, 2014
My dear, all life is a series of problems which we must try and solve; the first one, and the next, and the next, until at last we die. Why don’t you get us an ice cream?
— Dowager Countess, “Episode 8,” Downton Abbey
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Just stay hungry
— Notorious B.I.G. in Jay Z, “My 1st Song”
Friday, January 17, 2014
What I have come to believe is we are at least one of the ways the universe knows itself. That is extraordinary.
— Bill Nye, Los Angeles Daily News
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Peter Singer just said ‘Dingo.’ Brilliant.
— CHV 310 notes
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters “a very good God damn”: that “an artist, a man, a failure” is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any un-understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automation, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.
— e e cummings, six nonlectures
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
It’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now.
— Samantha, Her
Monday, January 13, 2014
The way is shut.
— Male voice outside of McCosh 30
Sunday, January 12, 2014
From her I marvellingly learned that the truest power is gentleness.
— e e cummings, six nonlectures
Saturday, January 11, 2014
And there is a danger in making more of these than what they are.
— Wikipedia, “Waiting for Godot”
Friday, January 10, 2014
And the nighttime was the worst.
— The Head And The Heart, “10,000 Weight in Gold”
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Poetry or carpentry, history or hats.
— Tom Branson, “Episode One,” Downton Abbey
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Ladies and gentlemen.
— “Funny Bear Pole Dancing,” YouTube
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Ikkyu wrote that a solitary tune by a
fisherman is an invaluable treasure I know nothing
I will live for a short time
I catch all I can
I sing while I do it
fisherman is an invaluable treasure I know nothing
I will live for a short time
I catch all I can
I sing while I do it
— Maxon
Monday, January 6, 2014
I’d be sad if your twin died.
— Kristin