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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“Such pleasure we shared, though on waking, like something overheard at a cafe...”
– Boyer Rickel, excerpt from Vestige (via holdonmagnolia)
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“When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...”
– Verlyn Klinkenborg
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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.
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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...
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“Is it truly about the journey? Because Lady Gaga’s journey isn’t that difficult:...”
– M.I.A.
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“The secrets of the inner life are written on the face.
They reveal themselves...”
– Wittgenstein Jr 