January 2012
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“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
– Saul Bellow (via larmoyante)
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Republican Poetry by Mitch Daniels, Vol. 1:
inothernews:
“A Niagara of debt.”
“We will speak the language of unity.”*
(*Which is English, of course.)
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he said the "s" word
sonofapritch:
“spending”
Newt Gingrich runs to his telegraph
“that filthy fucking fascist is spending money STOP tell the American people STOP /s/ The Historian”
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history,...”
– Hermann Hesse (via larmoyante)
“What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely...”
– T. S. Eliot (via half-ashamed)
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“It is possible he mesmerized me
with mouth tricks: a dragon spit
of lighter...”
– from the poem “It Is Possible He Thought”-by Nikole Brown
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“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die,...”
– Lolita (1997), Humbert. (via nethernaut)
“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have...”
– T.S. Eliot (via larmoyante)
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Nostalgia for the Light
Patricio Guzmán: How long does it take for the moonlight to reach us?
Gaspar Galaz: Just over a second.
Patricio Guzmán: And sunlight?
Gaspar Galaz: Eight minutes.
Patricio Guzmán: So we don't see things at the very instant we look at them?
Gaspar Galaz: No, thats the trap. The present doesn't exist. It's true. The only present that might exist is the one in my mind. It's the closest we come to the absolute present.
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