May 2013
3 posts
2 tags
“Being in love is an elaborate state of anticipation for the continual exchanging...”
– John Berger, G.
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“It begins with a crisis of the state that enables a ‘dissident social...”
– VJ Prashad, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
“Some say of my writing that it is too overburdened with metaphor and simile:...”
– John Berger, G.
April 2013
2 posts
2 tags
“When we’d been living together for a year she left me for a German, by the...”
– Roberto Bolaño, “Snow,” The Return
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March 2013
3 posts
“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where...”
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
October 2012
3 posts
5 tags
“The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells...”
– Michelle Alexander, “On the Irrational Race Bias of the Criminal Justice and Prison Systems, Truthout.
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“The thought of having to try to get excited about yet another minor quadrennial...”
– Matt Taibbi, “How I learned to stop worrying and love the OWS protests,” Rolling Stone
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“That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her. That...”
– Partial list of the “many exotic new facts you will acquire” if “by virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility,” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (p. 200-205)
September 2012
3 posts
5 tags
“Humans appear to be designed to be paranoid; they are designed to see...”
– Satoshi Kanazawa, “The disadvantage of smarts.”
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“Intelligent people do well in almost every sphere of modern life, except for the...”
– Satoshi Kanazawa, “The disadvantage of smarts”
“The main determinants of childrens’ performance continues to be the...”
– Economist Dean Baker (via theamericanbear)
August 2012
5 posts
3 tags
“Although I had felt my debt like a weight as soon as I took it on, it wasn’t...”
– Alexandra Kimball, “How to Succeed in Journalism when You Can’t Afford an Internship”
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“All progress in capitalistic agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of...”
– Karl Marx, Capital
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“there is a hidden order, mimicked by, or revealed by, art, which makes sense of...”
– A.S. Byatt, reviewing David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas
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“White supremacy … actually necessitates and relies on a discourse that...”
– Harsha Walia, “Hate Crimes Always Have a Logic”
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“when Awlaki’s father sued in advance to try to prevent the U.S. Government from...”
– Glenn Greenwald, “Obama the Pioneer,”Salon.com
July 2012
4 posts
3 tags
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present. And by each...”
– Cloud Atlas (film), based on the novel by David Mitchell
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“Melancholic depression can be understood in relation to the circulation of...”
– Franco Berardi, After the Future
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“Why are the cognitariat weak and disunited and unable to assert their rights as...”
– Franco Berardi, After the Future
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“Politics and therapy will be one and the same activity in the coming years....”
– Franco “Bifo” Berardi, After the Future
June 2012
8 posts
2 tags
“Problems. Life is full of problems, although life was wonderful in Barcelona in...”
– Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
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“Common sense suggests that if you want to maximize scientific creativity, you...”
– David Graeber, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”
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“As marketing overwhelms university life, it generates documents about fostering...”
– David Graeber, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”
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“The transformation of the idea of justice into the industry of human rights has...”
– Arundhati Roy, “Capitalism: A Ghost Story”
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“The poor of the subcontinent have always lived in debt, in the merciless grip of...”
– Arundhati Roy, “Capitalism: A Ghost Story”
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“And when she left I began to think about Álvaro Damián and the Laura Damián...”
– Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
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“I would’ve liked to ask him why, why he felt the need to tell me that in...”
– Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
May 2012
10 posts
4 tags
“But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s...”
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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“This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated...”
– David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital
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“When I was in high school we had a teacher who claimed to know exactly what he...”
– Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
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“…we’re in this weird situation where the only really effective thing...”
– David Graeber in conversation with Rebecca Solnit, Guernica Magazine
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“We will sing to the infinity of the present and abandon the illusion of a...”
– Franco Berardi (Bifo), The Post-Futurist Manifesto
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“Wente is one of those columnists who would make me laugh on a regular basis, if...”
– Mike Spry, “Margaret Wente Hates Herself”
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“We think of renunciation happening formally, definitively, possibly as a result...”
– Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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“I sat on the bed and did not know what to do, and then I decided that not...”
– Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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“A tuition hike is not a matter of isolated accounting, but the goal of a...”
– Martin Lukacs, “Quebec student protests mark ‘Maple spring’ in Canada”
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The Vonnegut Principle
“Make sure that your reader is having a good time. Get to the who, when, where, what right away, so the reader knows what is going on.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
April 2012
6 posts
5 tags
“‘What about you? What do you do?’
‘Journalist. I’m...”
– Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
2 tags
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“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it,...”
– Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
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“At this time of life, one has already been wounded many times by love; it no...”
– Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time)
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“The standard liberal motto – that it is sometimes necessary to resort to...”
– Slavoj Žižek, “A Permanent Economic Emergency”
March 2012
4 posts
2 tags
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“His work is about the things I care most about: memory, thresholds, solitude,...”
– Teju Cole, on Michael Ondaatje 