February 2011
January 2011
“The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.”
– Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (via rerylikes)
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“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the...”
– The first sentence of DFW’s “The Depressed Person”.
By mixing heightened feeling and unrelenting repetition (“pain”, “pain”, “pain”) with a Latinate, clinically declarative voice (“component”, “contributing factor”), Wallace delivers his readers right where he wants them: inside the hellish...
“There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in...”
– Ray Bradbury (via quotesforintellectuals)
“If I have read the Bible correctly, I know many men who have never heard the...”
– Gandhi (via azspot)
“Marx does not advocate state ownership but some form of ownership vested in the...”
– David Harvey, “The Future of the Commons,” Radical History Review, no.109, p. 105 (via newleft)
WatchDarren Aronofsky. Requiem for a Dream. 2000.
Michael Peters. Alogia.
“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for...”
– Watchmen. Chapter VI: The Abyss Gazes Also. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Zora Neale Hurston. (via awritersruminations & deadwriters)
“I put to myself the question: “Do I, or do I not love her?” and again I could...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Gambler” (via justinsoileau)
“My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed.”
– Wittgenstein (via aperfectcommotion)
“I am not angry; I am anger. I am not dangerous; I am danger.”
– Amir Sulaiman (via seussiangrac)
“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in...”
– Henry Steele Commager (via libraryland)
“I’d sell my soul,
my self-esteem,
a dollar at a time.
For one chance,...”
– A Perfect Circle. Magdalena. Mer de Noms.