April 2009
19 posts
“…We would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green...”
– Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries. (via thebarstoolromantic)
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out...”
– Stephen King, On Writing
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“In lesser gods we trust.”
– Shephard Fairey
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“In the midst of winter I found, within me, an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
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“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more...”
– Jack Kerouac
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“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
– Marcel Duchamp
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“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay...”
– Simone de Beauvoir — This is very Aristotelian. Aristotle argued that happiness was achieved when a person acted in accordance with the “golden mean”, as an end in and of itself. This quote expresses that same idea.
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“I want to be what I’ve always wanted to be: dominant.”
– Tiger Woods
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“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte, Writing about the retreat from Moscow, in a letter to Abbé du Pradt, 1812
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“Patricia Franchini: What is your greatest ambition in life?
Parvulesco: To...”
– Breathless
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“Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.”
– Sir Isaac Newton
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“You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because...”
– Van Morrison
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“I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.”
– JFK
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“He lived like a czar in an ice palace built of frozen sighs.”
– Herman Melville
“In general relativity, bodies always follow straight lines in four-dimensional...”
– Stephen Hawking (via jstn)
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“A man’s gotta have code.”
– Omar, from the greatest television show ever, The Wire.
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“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work it until it’s done and...”
– Walt Disney
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“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own...”
– Marcel Duchamp