February 2012
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I’m never going to accomplish anything; that’s perfectly clear to...
– Dorothy Parker, “The Little Hours” in Here Lies, 1939.
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I’ve a very Catholic Irish grandmother, one of the Lynches. She is the...
– Jack Nicholson, from a 2007 interview. I’m trying to wrap my head around this.
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—You’re not a believer, are you? Haines asked. I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God.
—There’s only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said.
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—Yes, of course, he said as they went on again. Either you believe or you don’t, isn’t it? Personally I couldn’t stomach...
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January 2012
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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic...
What reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom’s offer?
That he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by submersion in cold water (his last bath having taken place in the month of October of the preceding year), disliking the aqueous substances of glass and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and language.
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…By now her mind was clear— Oh you think you’re smart you young people, she said, but I’ll tell you you don’t know anything. Then we started. On the way we passed a long row of elms. She looked at them awhile out of the ambulance window and said, What are all those fuzzy looking things out there? Trees? Well, I’m tired of them and rolled her head away.
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Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive.
– Bruce Springsteen, This Hard Land
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Dublin Blues
This is one of those songs that I just fall in love with playing. For one thing, it’s three chords, like any good, sad country song. I can flat pick it, or just strum it if I’m sleepy. Beyond that, it’s got one of those pretty, bittersweet melodies that is as good in my bedroom as it is in a concert hall or a wide open hay field.
To top it off, it’s got that rare...
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To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can...
– Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding, II:1.
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American poetry is a very easy subject to discuss for the simple reason that it...
– William Carlos Williams, Paterson, p. 240.
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