May 2013
8 posts
everything else fades away
when you are denied your right to housing
April 2013
19 posts
timeimmemorial:
One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.
— Recipe For Happiness In Khabarovsk Or Any Place, Ferlinghetti
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h0odrich:
i wear all black cause everywhere its a funeral for everyone im stylin on
No Taste for Industry
Czar: “I have heard the American kitchen is miserable. All the foods are prepared on a big scale and they have no individual taste or flavor. Is that true?”
Chaliapin: “Yes, Your Majesty, that it true. They have a flavor of American corporations and speculation.”
Czar: “That I think is the drawback of the American conditions as far as I have heard. The trusts can manufacture iron and other...
In Praise of Very Large Staircases: A Brief... →
Jane Jacobs, the great champion of urban living, stoops were as integral to the health of a city as parks, sidewalks, and street life. In our own era, as prices of townhouses soar and they once again become the domain of the city’s wealthiest residents, will the stoop survive as a neighborhood gathering place? Or are we on the verge of a new Gilded Age?
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via human-voices)
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (via human-voices)
March 2013
11 posts
Bill Gates funds condoms: Gates pledges $100,000... →
Bill Gates’ latest charitable contribution in the field of public health: $100,000 to the inventor of a condom that actually feels good. Grand Challenges in Global Health, a research foundation established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is offering the grant money for the best “testable hypothesis” for “the next generation condom,” one that “significantly preserves or enhances...
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (via human-voices)
“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via human-voices)
“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad...”
– Clarice Lispector, A Hora Da Estrela (via human-voices)
February 2013
11 posts
“Our heart survives between
hammers, just as the tongue between
the teeth is...”
– Rilke, Duino Elegy 9 (trans. A. Poulin)
Max Sebald's Writing Tips →
can’t think of a mental task as painful as studying for standardized testing at the age of 25. memorizing prime numbers is heartbreakingly boring.
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January 2013
13 posts
