January 2011
22 posts
“I’m in love with ephemera and I hate permanence”
– O’Toole by Gay Talese
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The Art of Nonfiction No. 2, Gay Talese... →
I remember some very romantic things about Nan. I have a TR3 sports car, which I bought back in 1958. It’s a little convertible with a canvas roof. Once we drove it down to Key West. It was a long ride. On the way back, I wanted to see the home of Thomas Wolfe in Asheville, North Carolina. I didn’t know this ahead of time, but the route requires you to drive over a mountain. I wasn’t speeding, but...
“I was dressed very well—in clothes made by my father—so at least I was a...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 2, Gay Talese
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“the record keeping is more than just boxes of notes; it’s the creative act...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 2, Gay Talese
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“the best fucking tamale I have ever had”
– rhoner comments on Have you ever picked up a hitch-hiker?
“Today you…. tomorrow me.”
“hoy por ti, mañana por mi”
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“I’m happy you’re here. When white people are here, we can get milk.”
– Mother Jones in Haiti
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“Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be...”
– Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. Glaser continues:
How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, “that looks just like Cézanne.” And you realize...
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“I want the best for her because she’s a lady. She acts like a lady, the...”
– Bill Murray introducing Sofia Coppola at the NBR Awards
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“This is messy work — this is the front line.”
– New American Academy in Brooklyn Is an Experiment in Class Size - NYTimes.com
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“Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the...”
– ASCII by Jason Scott / Yahoo!locaust
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“Attention to detail, like most facets of truly good design, can’t be (and never...”
– Marco
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“Searching Google is now like asking a question in a crowded flea market of...”
– Marco: Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search
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“No matter where we are, we feel that we are missing out if we are not constantly...”
– Using social networking to find a plane buddy: for or against? – Lonely Planet
“What he understood was that the young craved an exit, and he had built a...”
– India’s New Generation of Caste Busters - NYTimes.com
“Misal embodies the type of person who will truly transform India: not an...”
– India’s New Generation of Caste Busters
Watchants amongst moss, et cetera.
