May 2012
April 2012
“Some people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could...”
– Andy Warhol
On the journey down from Naples the party had... →
On the journey down from Naples the party had fallen in with a couple of Italian youths who offered to act as guides. At Paestum, where the odd-assorted little band picnicked at noon in the Temple of Hera, the young men expressed their curiosity as to the identity and occupations of the Americans. Fischer’s daughter, who was acting as interpreter, turned to Rothko and said: “I have told them that...
“The young girl feels that her body is getting away from her, it is no longer the...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (via hopclover)
“6. Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us...”
– Charles Wheelan on 10 things commencement speakers won’t tell you, to complement some timeless smart things commencement speakers do tell you.
(↬ Austin Kleon)
How to become a nomad and an immigrant and a gypsy in relation to one’s own language?
-Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
