February 2012
14 posts
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“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
– David Foster Wallace (via millionsmillions)
Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman →
A fantastic interview with the progressive that knows what the hell he is talking about. Not to mention, Krugman says here that he likes Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers, and Feist.
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“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury (via doubledaybooks)
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“Poppa thought about how cold it was gonna be tomorrow, but then he remembered...”
– Piri Thomas, in Down These Mean Streets.
(Writing doesn’t get much more immediate than that.)
January 2012
6 posts
Snippets
“Yeah, when we were kids. But these past few years, if we weren’t fighting, you were just driving me to school.” I paused. “I want to learn how to smoke pot. I want to drink with people other than family. For once I want to be less hippy, more athletic. You seem so happy now, but I never thought I’d miss having you around.”
“I’m not happy,” he said. “But thanks for missing me.”
(from a...
“[Teaching] is sometimes tedious and demanding, sometimes confusing and...”
– Bill Ayers
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums (via bookmania)
December 2011
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“Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (via bookmania)