February 2012
11 posts
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“We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.”
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Margins, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
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“Imagine walking into a place, say a mega-chain copy shop in a strip mall. It’s...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan, on David Foster Wallace (via sometimesagreatnotion)
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“An angle of light. Believe in it.”
– Ana Božičević, from “Death, Is All” (via proustitute)
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“‘Words and things’ is the entirely serious title of a problem.”
– Michel Foucault (via allbecause)
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“You start with your own body
then move outward, but not too far.
Never try to...”
– “How to be Happy: Another Memo to Myself,” Stephen Dunn (via clavicola)
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“I couldn’t name it, the sweet
sadness welling up in me for weeks.
So I...”
– Dorianne Laux, “After Twelve Days of Rain” (via grammatolatry)
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“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech (via kateoplis)
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“The proximity of distance.”
– Anna Kamienska, from “In That Great River,” trans. Clare Cavanagh (via proustitute)