September 2012
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“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the...”
– Martin Amis
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“From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think...”
– Tom Perrotta, from Joe College: A Novel
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“Men marry women hoping they will never change. Women marry men hoping they can...”
– Someone who would rather not have their name posted on tumblr
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“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
– John Locke (today is his birthday)
The secret ingredient is very often cheese.
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“Life, I’ve learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that...”
– Nicholas Sparks
I’m doubtful that this will be part of curriculum reform this September, but…
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“Your silence will not protect you.”
– Audre Lorde
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True Believers
“By far the most interesting thing about my life, however, is nowhere in my resume or official bio or Wikipedia entry. I’m not exactly who the world believes I am. Let me cut to the chase: I once set out to commit a spectacular murder, and people died. But it’s not a simple story. It needs to be unpacked very carefully. Like a bomb.”
from True Believers, a new novel by Kurt Anderson
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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
– Edgar Degas
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“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“… at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges(Born on this day in 1899)
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Very early footage of THE WHO
“Lost footage” of The Who when they were still known as The High Numbers recorded at the Railway Hotel in 1964 along with all those mod guys and girls.
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“I like poems where you don’t really know whether to laugh or cry when you...”
– X.J. Kennedy
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“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its...”
– Jean de La Bruyère
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“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
– Dorothy Parker
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“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the...”
– It’s the birthday of Ray Bradbury, born in Waukegan, Illinois (1920). He published more than 500 works — novels, stories, plays, and poems.
Bradbury died earlier this summer at the age of 91.
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“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded...”
– Ted Hughes
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X.J. Kennedy
It’s the birthday of Jersey poet poet X. J. Kennedy, born Joseph Charles Kennedy in Dover, New Jersey in 1929.
He grew up in a working-class Irish-American family. His father, a timekeeper at the local boiler factory, recited poems to his son. Kennedy went to college, where he started reading and writing poetry, then served in the Navy for four years. He said, “I enlisted in the Navy...
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
– Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
– William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 