January 2010
7 posts
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith, age 26, at 2:30 am New Years Eve 1947 in her journal.
(already posted this, but it seems a bit more appropriate this evening)
December 2009
110 posts
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via simtan) (via quote-book)
“It pulls the ice-pick from your heart
Tears the building blocks apart
It tells...”
– Lovescene, Daniel Knox
“A plea for protection
Slight infection
I never worry about rejection
A...”
– No accident, Daniel Knox
“If we are paying attention about facts, we end up as accountants. If you find out that yes, here or there, a fact has been modified or has been imagined, it will be a triumph of the accountants to tell me so. But we are into illumination for the sake of a deeper truth, for an ecstasy of truth, for something we can experience once in a while in great literature and great cinema. I’m...
“The past and present wilt-I have fill’d them,
emptied them,
And...”
– Walt Whitman, excerpt from Song of Myself
“I never fathomed you a cynic. Until now. You were someone else. Someone...”
“He was disappointed in the world, so he built one of his own.”
– from: Citizen Cane
One of Proust’s ex-lovers and his most constant friend, Reynaldo Hahn, the composer, recalled that soon after he met Proust they were walking through a garden when suddenly Proust stopped dead before a rosebush. He asked Hahn to continue walking without him. When at last Hahn circled back, after going around the chateau, “I found him at the same place, staring at the roses. His head...
