May 2012
11 posts
“To get where you’re going, you have to be good, and to be good where...”
– Aaron Sorkin
“It seemed to him, however, that he must be loved. Sometimes he used to wake up...”
– Gustave Flaubert, A Sentimental Education
“We make out world what it is, and we become the kind of people who live in it.”
– WIlson Miner
“Thanks to the voluntary ignorance of our fathers, the advent of the ultimate...”
– Aldous Huxley, writing to George Orwell
“Creativity is the ability to produce valuable novelty.”
– Clay Shirky
“Surely, though, man is more at sea than woman. A woman is less foolish than a...”
– Wright Morris
“I think that misbehavior is very strongly correlated with and responsible for...”
– Steve Wozniak
“[The] commingling of a real place and imagined events provides the framework for...”
– Wright Morris
“With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would...”
– Thoreau
April 2012
8 posts
“My memory laid a cold curse on the present moment.”
– John Updike, The Coup
“Sometimes you have to come up against the end before you start. Meaning, the...”
– Stephen Elliott
“If I’ve read it or done it before, then I’m not interested. My aesthetic, or my...”
– Jennifer Egan
“five crucial aspects of wise reasoning:
willingness to seek opportunities to...”
“A spiritual project—but tied to making an object (as consciousness is harnessed...”
– Susan Sontag
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not...”
– Karl Marx
“If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are...”
– Kafka
“Writing is a miraculous technology all its own—a code that, when input through...”
– Robert Moor
March 2012
10 posts
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via asterisk-)
“Ambition is an interesting concept. To me as a writer, and even as a human in...”
– John Warner
“The hand, the quality of the work, that is what matters. Is it beautiful or is...”
– Yukio Akamine
“I will believe corporations are people under the 1st amendment when Texas and...”
– Robert Reich
“The bandwidth silence is golden.”
– John Calvert
“Our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”
– David Foster Wallace, from Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness From Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed (PDF Link)
“Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not...”
– Banksy, on advertising
“The street finds its own uses for things”
– William Gibson, Burning Chrome
February 2012
11 posts
“The artist is by necessity a collector”
– Paul Rand
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life–is the...”
– Joan Didion, from ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’
“Eventually this hobby became a job of sorts. That’s what goes for...”
– Stephen Elliott
“Must [we] always suffer spiritually and aesthetically to satisfy material needs?”
– Robert Pirsig
“It’s also important to take a view about the world that isn’t just...”
– Ben Berlow
“I felt that it’s my job as an artist to confront those things that scared...”
– Derek Cianfrance
“He is, after all, a gentleman from an age when having an eloquent command of the...”
– Georg Diez, on Jürgen Habermas
“Every future is someone else’s past, every present someone else’s...”
– William Gibson
“I’m not making anything that’s not already written in the cosmos.”
– Georgia Anne Muldrow
“We all know the same truth, and our lives consist of how we choose to distort...”
– Woody Allen
“the luxury trap? Faced with forbidding plenitude, they could only pastiche the...”
– Lee Arizuno
January 2012
5 posts
“…The cinema-machine [is] a way of destroying souls by extracting images...”
– Shaviro on The Kingdom of Shadows by K. W. Jeter
“Courage is this thing that you dig out of a pit of shame.”
– Merlin Mann
December 2011
2 posts
“we will come upon ourselves again, the city as a circular being.”
– via practiceresearch
"there is no scarcity of resources on Earth, only... →
November 2011
5 posts
“I just want to share good music. Fuck the DJ, the talent is on the turntable,”
– Kenny Dixon Jr. aka Moodymann
“The knower and the known are one”
– Eckhart (via theministryoftruth)
“Always search. Don’t ever give up. And check the b-sides.”
– Gilles Peterson