May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
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“I needed to look something up: my left hand...”
– Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, from The Letter Killers Club
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“I think he has a completely different concept of what a record should be—...”
– Brian Eno, from A Year with Swollen Appendices
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“To studio early, sitting out in the sun, remembering other days sitting in city...”
– Brian Eno, from A Year with Swollen Appendices
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“Meanwhile I tried with them to get some kind of result on ‘I’m Deranged’ – a...”
– From A Year with Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno
January 2012
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“I’m careful very careful
there’s an abyss beneath every word”
– Bei Dao, from As Far as I Know
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“You are free and that is why you are lost.”
– Franz Kafka (via gcapet)
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December 2011
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“Throughout the film the reporter kept up a ceaseless commentary in that eager,...”
– Per Wahloo & Maj Sjowall, from The Terrorists
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My Favorite Things by Shuntaro Tanikawa
‘Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper packages tied up with strings — These are a few of my favorite things.’ —Oscar Hammerstein No matter how much I like a thing actually owning it somewhat bores me. And no matter how much I like that thing not owning it makes me somewhat resentful of it....
“A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms (via mythologyofblue)
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“The words go swimming past you as if they were blue fish.”
– Jack Spicer