June 2012
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“The Internet is one more electronic craze that market forces will sooner or...”
– Simon Jenkins, The Times, January 4, 1997.
Jun 1st
May 2012
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May 31st
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May 30th
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“[Plastic] is the first magical substance which consents to be prosaic.”
– Roland Barthes, Mythologies.
May 30th
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“If you love someone with dark skin, white skin looks drained of something...”
– Jennifer Egan, Black Box, a story in Twitter.
May 28th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“Those who suffer chronic boredom do so because they can’t transcend the...”
– This is what I think Jonathan Franzen meant when he diagnosed David Foster Wallace’s death as one that was caused by “boredom”.
May 23rd
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“[…] Just stretches on and off, right out onto blankness.”
– Description of South Dakota, in This Will Be Difficult to Explain And Other Stories by Johanna Skibsrud.
May 20th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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“I wanted to work out a trade with things that aren’t alive but...”
– Leo Auberg, the narrator in Herta Muller’s new novel, The Hunger Angel 
May 19th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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“Desire is democratic; we fall for the wrong people, across age, class, color,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, review of John Irving’s new novel, In One Person.
May 13th
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May 13th
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“I don’t think that mumbling, swearing and punctuating one’s...”
– Anon.
May 11th
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May 6th
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“Talk is not cheap, and silence is not golden.”
– Newt Gingrich, who charges astronomical fees for his speeches.
May 6th
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May 6th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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May 2nd
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“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic...”
– Boris Pasternak
May 2nd
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May 2nd
April 2012
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Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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“The real is imagined, just as the imagined is real.”
– Clifford Geertz (he meant, perhaps that fiction and non-fiction are double-helixed)
Apr 26th
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann, in a commencement speech delivered to Antioch college graduates, class of 1859.
Apr 10th
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“Nobody has ever choked swallowing pride yet swallowing pride is something so...”
Apr 7th
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March 2012
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“To be in debt is to remain awake.”
– (Ominous) last line in Sophie Cabot Black’s poem, Somewhere in New Jersey is the Center.
Mar 28th
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Mar 28th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of...”
– Khalil Gibran
Mar 23rd
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Mar 17th
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“Intimacy is something that causes an errection of the heart.”
– David Foster Wallace
Mar 17th
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Mar 17th
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“One of the core assumptions of LGBT activism, anti-racism work, and other...”
– “Is It Fair to Punish Dharun Ravi because Tyler Clementi Died?” Newsweek
Mar 14th
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“Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me […] But they...”
– Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, at the “Women in the World Summit” at Lincoln Center, March 11, 2012.
Mar 14th
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“Heaven and earth are [only] three feet apart.”
– An old Celtic saying.
Mar 12th