Sunday, September 15, 2024
So if you say, “I want to write a book about the 19th century,” there is more material available for almost any topic you want to pick than you could possibly go through in your lifetime. If you say, “I want to write a book about the Roman world,” this is a very different thing. In my office, I have a bookshelf that’s, I don’t know, eight feet high, 10 feet wide, and it contains pretty much all the main surviving Greek and Roman literary texts.
— Gregory Aldrete, "Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443"
Saturday, September 14, 2024
His truth is marching on
— Elvis Presley, "An American Trilogy," Elvis Presley The 50 Greatest Hits
Friday, September 13, 2024
Sometimes
your nose
will make you sad.
Sometimes
your nose
will make you mad.
— Al Perkins, The Nose Book illustrated by Ray McKie
Thursday, September 12, 2024
My initial conception of the books was to have them be printed in two different heights, alternating, so when lined up on a shelf they would be crenellated, like a castle; like Kafka's Castle. A place that one approaches, but never truly arrives at. When I used to design, I always tried to find ways to justify the use of any medium or surface I had to design to. I never really loved just slapping a design on a surface.
— @petermendelsund
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Photos of normal life in the foreground and 9/11 unfolding in the background
— @welcome.jpeg
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
And attempting to take X-ray images without an X-ray machine by using the natural showers of radiation that stream through outer space.
— Kenneth Chang, "Polaris Dawn Astronauts Launch on Ambitious Private Mission," The New York Times
Monday, September 9, 2024
I was 32 when I started teaching at Barstow.
— Mr. Luce
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Cross the wide Missourah
— The Men of The Robert Shaw Chorale, "Shenandoah"
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Field of human-sized corn sculptures
— @amandahuynh
Friday, September 6, 2024
I think the piece that is very hard for us to comprehend is what motivated them culturally. ... I think the motivational part's the harder one to solve. If you can figure out the motivation, you'll figure out a way to organize the whole society. And if you can get the whole society working on it, you can probably do it.
— Peter Thiel on the pyramids, "#2190 - Peter Thiel, The Joe Rogan Experience"
Thursday, September 5, 2024
a book about kissing
— @claire_hungerford caption on images of book with two spines whose pages have silhouettes of animals whose faces meet in the middle so they each kiss each other
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Eventually every photograph is a photograph of a dead person. The camera is an idling hearse.
— @patrick_pound
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
I do try to make three physical things every 15 days. So even when I'm not sure how it all ties together, I just try to make my three objects. Having this little goal keeps me in search of new physical forms, and helps my drawings not just be .pngs on my hard drive.
— Somnath Bhatt via @thecreativeindependent
Monday, September 2, 2024
Truman talked to him on the telephone shortly before he died in March 1963, "He knew he was dying, and he said one of the most marvelous things l ever remember anybody saying. 'Never mind. At least I've grown up at last.' I knew exactly what he meant. Like most of us, all of his life he had been the victim of adolescent impulses. Contending with something formidable, he knew what it was to be an adult."
— Gerald Clarke, Capote
Sunday, September 1, 2024
It’s literally showing up to a restaurant with Ritz crackers.
— Lily on Wally sucking on his hand during breastfeeding
Saturday, August 31, 2024
A book is a major investment for a serious writer, and the wrong choice of a theme or plot, particularly at the beginning, not only wastes his time and dampens his enthusiasm, but also casts a blight on his still tender reputation.
— Gerald Clarke, Capote
Friday, August 30, 2024
He planned to become the grand old man of American letters, the American Somerset Maugham. He wanted to write popular books, make lots of money, and have a house on the Riviera, just as Maugham did. He always used to say, 'Longevity's the answer. If you live long enough, everything will turn your way.'
— Truman Capote on Gore Vidal via Gerald Clarke, Capote
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Right now, everything is in play. But by and large, criticism doesn't exist. Right now criticism is temporarily suspended.
— @jerrysaltz
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
And while I can think, while I can talk
While I can stand, while I can walk
— Elvis Presley, "If I Can Dream - Live from the '68 Comeback Special," Elvis Presley The 50 Greatest Hits
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Dear universe.
I would love to become a full-time professor at an institution.
— Begining of a note Laurel Schwulst posted on Instagram stories
