no. 738

 

no. 782

 “Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”

Duke Ellington 

no. 781

Alvy Singer: I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for "Dysentery."

Robin: "Commentary."

Alvy Singer: Oh really? I had heard that "Commentary" and "Dissent" had merged and formed "Dysentery."

From the movie, “Annie Hall”

no. 780

 Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

- Daniel Dennett

no. 779

 

no. 778

 “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

Christopher Hitchens 

no. 777

 My wife is gone, my girl is gone, 

my books are loaned, my clothes 

are worn, I gave away a car; and 

all that happened years ago. 

Mind & matter, love & space 

are frail as foam on beer.

—Gary Snyder

no. 776

 If you want to write, you must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books & glorious books. You must lurk in libraries & climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes & wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. 

Ray Bradbury

no. 775

 “I work really hard to not ever think about my place in the world.

I'm aware of my good fortune. I'm very aware of it, and I'm very aware that, because of it, people offer me things. Opportunities to do extraordinary things. The ones that are interesting to me are collaborations. I get to work with people who 10 years ago I wouldn't have dreamed to have been able to work with. And that's a big change professionally, and it's something that I think about a lot. How can I creatively have fun, do some interesting stuff, not repeat myself? Have fun. Play in a creative way.”

–Anthony Bourdain

no. 774

 

no. 773

 

no. 772

 Worth revisiting during this Election season:

Luke 4: 5-8 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”

no. 771

 "In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate." 

Toni Morrison

no. 770

 Ursula K. LeGuin

no. 769

 

Don’t forget, this is the same guy who warned us about the Military/Industrial Complex.

no. 768

“I love how all the movies about teenagers have to be set in the 90s or earlier otherwise we’d just be watching  kids on their phones for two hours”

Cooper Lawrence

Sure, it’s a little you-kids-get-off-my-lawn, but that doesn’t make it any less funny or true. 

no. 767

 “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”

Confucius, The Analects

no. 766

 “When you start thinking about what people like, you start thinking about what people expect. Then you start pandering to people’s expectations. Then you start talking about yourself in the third person. I learned very early on not to think about that. You go out there and do the best you can, and you do things that are interesting to you. Hopefully it will be interesting to other people. I don’t want to be adequate. I’d rather fail gloriously making something strange, awesome but ultimately a failure.”

–Anthony Bourdain 

no. 765

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself  and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to  which may be the true.”        

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter 

no. 764

 “Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.”

~Oscar Wilde (recorded by Frank Harris)

I am amused that this was written without the use of italics.