February 2011
86 posts
“A man is capable of as much atrocity as he has imagination.”
– A Beautiful Mind
January 2011
65 posts
“For the first time in a generation, it is not religion, nor the adventures of a...”
– “Yearning for Respect, Arabs Find a Voice,” The New York Times (via inothernews)
“Even though man himself is mortal, he can imagine neither the end of space nor...”
– Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“It would be easy to pay the $2500 bill and be swiftly done with this diseased...”
– Dan Choi in a letter to President Obama, refusing to pay the $2500 the Army claims he owes after his early discharge under DADT. (via theatlantic)
“Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. (via foreignplaces)
“We support the universal rights of the Egyptian people including the rights to...”
– Hillary Clinton (via soupsoup)
“It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities...”
– Elie Wiesel (via mohandasgandhi)
“I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but...”
– Joyce Carol Oates - from The Faith of a Writer - Ecco, 2003
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
– Truman Capote
Bill Keller on balancing freedom of the press
“If the freedom of the press makes some Americans uneasy, it is anathema to the ideologists of terror.
So we have no doubts about where our sympathies lie in this clash of values. And yet we cannot let those sympathies transform us into propagandists, even for a system we respect.
I’m the first to admit that news organizations, including this one, sometimes get things wrong. We can be...
we do big things
“I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread,...”
– Nick Hornby; The Polysyllabic Spree (via wordpainting)
"We are all writers!"
“The irresistible proliferation of graphomania among politicians, taxi drivers, childbearers, lovers, murderers, thieves, prostitutes, officials, doctors, and patients shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: ‘We are all writers!’
For everyone is pained by the thought of...
“The main reason, though, why universities are today more elitist than...”
– “Revolt of the Elites,” n+1 Mag http://nplusonemag.com/revolt-of-the-elites
“People generally overestimate how distinct their own lives are, so the...”
– David Brooks, “Social Animal” (via laurapiercehorton)
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/17/110117fa_fact_brooks#ixzz1BqddsLZA
Yay! Things I Learned While Filling Out the FAFSA... →
Every year, I ask myself whether or not it’s even worth the trouble to fill out the FAFSA which is like 399480938490 questions long and boring and annoying. But because my parents insist on me…
“This is actually a real blind spot for liberals in general — the idea that...”
– John Marshall (via soupsoup)
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to get people to stop...”
– Above The Law, on the Fifth Circuit’s decision to uphold affirmative action by the University of Texas
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/01/fifth-circuit-upholds-affirmative-action-but-is-it-begging-for-scotus-intervention/
“Because here’s something else that’s true. In the day-to-day...”
– David Foster Wallace
“Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the...”
– David Foster Wallace
“These people are scared and angry, and they should be. Law school isn’t just...”
– Vault’s law blog
come august, we should have a funeral for life as i knew it.
“Putting it another way: every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement...”
– Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain...”
– Gandhi (via mohandasgandhi)
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Gustav Jung
