November 2010
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“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging...”
– William James
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the...”
– Mark Twain (via litmusings)
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Making Shoes vs. Making Books →
“The materials [of traditional shoemaking] are so lush and sensuous. Even the tools have a gorgeous patina. That the shoemaker’s artistry is lavished on such a low, practical object — when you step in shit, it is not your hat that is ruined — only makes the concrete physicality of the whole thing that much more real and authentic. Only 64 pairs of these shoes will be made, and Hiruma...
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WatchTina Fey’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize.
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WatchKanye West - “Power”
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“A short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
– Stephen King
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“Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Best Society" by Philip Larkin
When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, it lay at hand, Not specially right or specially wrong, A plentiful and obvious thing Not at all hard to understand. Then, after twenty, it became At once more difficult to get And more desired — though all the same More undesirable; for what You are alone has, to achieve The...
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“Victor Hugo would write naked and tell his valet to hide his clothes so that...”
– James Surowiecki, What We Can Learn from Procrastination (via Instapaper)
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“It feels important to remind ourselves, at this point, that Facebook, our new...”
– Zadie Smith on Facebook (New York Review of Books)
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