February 2012
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (disputed), as quoted by Ronald Wright in A Short History of Progress
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“The truth that lies closest, however, is only this: that you are beating your...”
– Franz Kafka
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“There is beauty as well as hatred in [Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’], and it...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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On Last Lines by Suzanne Buffam
The last line should strike like a lover’s complaint. You should never see it coming. And you should never hear the end of it.
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“How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating...”
– Chuang-tzu
January 2012
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“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its...”
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via proustitute)
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“Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points...”
– Khaled Hosseini, from A Thousand Splendid Suns
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to Zelda from F. Scott Fitzgerald, 26th April 1934
You and I have been happy; we haven’t been happy just once, we’ve been happy a thousand times. The chances that the spring, that’s for everyone, like in the popular songs, may belong to us too—the chances are pretty bright at this time because as usual, I can carry most of contemporary literary opinion, liquidated, in the hollow of my hand—and...
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“[This is] a culture that holds private property as sacrosanct above public...”
– Eric Zimmerman
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“I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole...”
– Laurie Anderson explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick
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“Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men’s needs.”
– Ana Castillo
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I, the Survivor by Bertolt Brecht
I know of course: it’s simply luck That I’ve survived so many friends. But last night in a dream I heard those friends say of me: ‘Survival of the fittest’ And I hated myself.
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Swingin’ Party, The Replacements
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“I tried not to do anything in life that ashamed the child I was.”
– José Saramago
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“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels....”
– Joseph Heller, from Catch 22
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“She had stayed a virgin so she wouldn’t be called a tramp or a slut; had married...”
– Fannie Flagg
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These Poems, She Said by Robert Bringhurst
These poems, these poems, these poems, she said, are poems with no love in them. These are the poems of a man who would leave his wife and child because they made noise in his study. These are the poems of a man who would murder his mother to claim the inheritance. These are the poems of a man like Plato, she said, meaning something I did not comprehend but which nevertheless offended...
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