February 2012
19 posts
“Most people allow their mind to be obstructed by the world and then try to...”
– Huang-PO
“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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“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-)