June 2012
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David Simon's Commencement Address, Georgetown... →
“Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.”
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What Hearts.
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…for poetry to be used as an instrument of seduction, the first...
– Charles Simic
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Clarity is one of the things I like to go for. I don’t think we’re...
– Leonard Cohen (via whiskeyriver)
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I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the...
– Philip Guston
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A genius is the one most like himself.
– Thelonious Monk
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April 2012
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Sometimes it’s a journey that cannot ever end, to a place that might not...
– John D’Agata
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Well some kinds of love
They’re mistaken for vision.
– Lou Reed
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But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my...
– Ben Lerner, from Leaving the Atocha Station.
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I no longer feel, as I did at seventeen or twenty, that I am an ecstatic vessel...
– William T. Vollmann
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