January 2012
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“When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...”
– Verlyn Klinkenborg
Jan 27th
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from History by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Even Eve, the only soul in all of time to never have to wait for love, must have leaned some sleepless nights alone against the garden wall and wailed, cold, stupefied, and wild and wished to trade-in all of Eden to have but been a child.
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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The three deadliest words in the world: It’s a... →
It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters. The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 million girls in the world today are ‘missing’. India and China are...
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“Is it truly about the journey? Because Lady Gaga’s journey isn’t that difficult:...”
– M.I.A.
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 22nd
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“The secrets of the inner life are written on the face. They reveal themselves...”
– Wittgenstein Jr 
Jan 22nd
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Jan 20th
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Elms by Louise Glück
All day I tried to distinguish need from desire. Now, in the dark, I feel only bitter sadness for us, the builders, the planers of wood, because I have been looking steadily at these elms and seen the process that creates the writhing, stationary tree is torment, and have understood it will make no forms but twisted forms.
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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“In each case that a man or a ‘masculine’ principle is undermined by...”
– Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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“Salvador Dalí is not a trustworthy source of information about himself. From his...”
– Ian Gibson, from The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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“I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer...”
– Fernando Pessoa
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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“I don’t think we need feelings of empowerment, what we need is real power.”
– Carol Hanisch (via feministquotes)
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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“The fact that Terrorism has no fixed meaning does not mean it is...”
– Glenn Greenwald
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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“‘Love is like Falconry,’ he said. ‘Don’t you think that’s true,...”
– Michael Chabon, from The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Jan 16th
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from “Of You” by Norman MacCaig
There are fires to be suffered, the blaze of cruelty, the smoulder of inextinguishable longing, even the gentle candleflame of peace that burns too. I suffer them. I survive. I’m writing of you.
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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“The trouble was not in the kitchen or the tulips but only in my head, my head.”
– Anne Sexton, from “The Touch”
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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