February 2012
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excerpt from "A Hunger So Honed" by Tracy K. Smith
We want so much, When perhaps we live best In the spaces between loves,
That unconscious roving, The heart its own rough animal.
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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
