April 2010
79 posts
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Portland Skies, End of March
“I can only meditate when I’m walking. When I stop, my mind ceases to think; my...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau (via mnmal)
“‘I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a button hole, not...”
– - Naomi Shihab Nye (via girlmeetsdream)
March 2010
55 posts
“The strategy of “eliminating the state” is back on the level of “let’s have...”
– Noam Chomsky (via newleft) (via ontologicalterrorist)
(I think that’s the most practical thing I’ve ever heard Chomsky say…)
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“Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.”
– J.D. Salinger, Unsealed Letters Offer Glimpse of Salinger (via mianoti) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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re: The March 8 Census Awareness Letter
I have sent a note that is in your mailbox and which you will probably not read anyway Forgive me it was important needed though costly
— Robert M. Groves Director, U.S. Census Bureau
“Certainly a major reason for the decline in poetry’s popular audience...”
– from Dana Gioia’s “Notes on the New Formalism”
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“Summer is the time to write. I tell myself this /
In winter especially....”
– from “The Time” by Naomi Shihab Nye
“If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A...”
– Mickey Spillane (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
