May 2012
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“I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via nypl)
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“Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts...”
– Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller (via proustitute)
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April 2012
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (via frenchtwist)
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“Over the next century, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms,...”
– TheTechium
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“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light...”
– Seneca, Natural Questions, Book 7, first century
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“I love the city. The suburbs are oppressive. And despite the crush and the...”
– Eric Roehmer
L’Amour l’apres-midi
March 2012
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“If possible we meet again sometime and I’ll tell you about the gypsy shrouds,...”
– Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
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“He has pointed out a young lady to you. She is there between two rows of...”
– If on a Winters Night a Traveller
~Italo Calvino
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“I rather enjoy that sense of bewilderment a novel gives you when you start...”
– If on a Winters Night a Traveller
~Italo Calvino
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“Finally the Work journeys irremediably alone in the Great Vastness. And one day...”
– The Savage Detectives
~Roberto Bolaño
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“We both liked Cortázar, we both liked Borges, neither of us had much money, and...”
– The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
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“A special kind of silence prevailed, a silence that figures neither in musical...”
– Amulet
~Roberto Bolaño
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“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes...”
– Pascal.
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“Anyone who doesn’t read Cortázar is doomed. Not to read him is a grave invisible...”
– Pablo Neruda
January 2012
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“Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhonemanufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A...
October 2011
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About to listen to Lydia Davis speak at McNally Jackson books. She is a writer who translated Proust’s Swann’s Way into English. I’m freaking out. Alright, maybe ‘freaking out’ is not accurate. More like I’m looking forward to it…a lot.
September 2011
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“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of...”
– The Rat • A Wild Sheep Chase (via jinquotes)
Haruki Murakami
August 2011
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ~ Faulkner
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“”By style, I mean color,” he said. “I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde. I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hichens and Kipling as well as the...
July 2011
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I kissed my mother’s warm temple good morning. I tell her I’m off to the Williamsburg Flea to check out some Remington typewriters I’ve been stalking for weeks. She peered into my eyes and said “your life has become strange and laughable.” I open the front door waves of golden light sail into the foyer, turn around and with a wry grin all I could do is laugh and say...
June 2011
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“What avail are brains? Merely to say “I have seen; I have comprehended?” Ah yes, I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me. Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember...
May 2011
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Just bought 4 tickets to the opening of ‘Tree of Life’ at Sunshine Cinema in Soho!
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April 2011
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