February 2012
23 posts
“If we are not continually upgrading our circumstances, as Newt Gingrich reminds...”
– Judith Newman. It’s so easy to get caught up in this stupid flow and easy to forget to just stop already.
“Chaim Soutine…eleventh child of a Russian Jewish tailor, living in a...”
– Meryle Secrest
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“[Maurice] Utrillo…had been given wine diluted with water from babyhood by...”
– Meryle Secrest
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“There are endless stories…about Modigliani’s overnight flights from...”
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“I am myself the plaything of strong forces that are born and die in me.”
– Modigliani
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“I would like my life to be a fertile stream flowing joyfully over the ground.”
– Modigliani
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“Not enough is known about Laure and Gabrielle to explain their sad eventual...”
– Meryle Secrest on the aunts of Modigliani.
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“In art, man fights for the poetry of his heart, for his happiness.”
– Viktor Shklovsky
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“This is the great guilty pleasure of good horror fiction: the sickening moment...”
– Patrick McGrath, in the Times book review
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“[Elsa Morante] had an uncanny ability to know when to help. Allen Midgette...”
– Lily Tuck, on Elsa Morante
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“Little is known of Irma’s family. Her father was a hunchback whom everyone...”
– Lily Tuck writing about the Italian writer Elsa Morante. Irma was Morante’s mother.
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“For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and
the eye of the heart...”
– Richard of Saint-Victor (d. 1173)
“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the...”
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via hip-)
January 2012
24 posts
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“OBJECT (Object of Sunset) stands apart for the extraordinary character of its...”
– Anne Umland on Joan Miro.
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via run-runaway)
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“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not...”
– Egon Schiele
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“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see...”
– Egon Schiele
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“At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees...”
– Egon Schiele
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“I see a black light.”
– Balzac’s last words before he died.
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”
– Theodore Roethke
“How many images had my generation absorbed from movies and books of a woman,...”
– Nancy Venable Raine
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“In New York, in 1998, [Ashrita Furman] walked 80.96 miles with a milk bottle on...”
– Alec Wilkinson
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“…the subordinate condition of women is maintained and enforced by the...”
– Judith Herman, in Trauma and Recovery
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Generation X
We are children alone in our bedrooms. And we can’t reconcile our longing for love with our peculiar and isolating definition of freedom.
“Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white...”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“Volosit,
Thank you for the note asking me to eat jam in your room….”
– Lili Brik to Mayakovsky
“You and I cannot go on living the way we’ve lived up till now. I...”
– Lili Brik, in a letter to Mayakovsky.
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“Love is life, love is the main thing. My poetry, my actions, everything stems...”
– Mayakovsky, in a letter he never sent to Lili Brik
December 2011
17 posts
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“The door between the two rooms had been removed to economise on space....”
– Lili Brik.
“(Without stories, memory falters; and without memory imagination fails.)”
– Peter Schjeldahl
Howling winds, the branches of trees bending and creaking. Earlier the front door blew open; someone had left it unlocked. Next door, the neighbors have guests, and jokes, and laughter.