November 2011
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“It is ‘beyondness,’ or that depth that you reach in a poem that...”
– Mark Strand
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my goodness
I fucking love Ryan Adams.
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I moved everything in my room around today
probably accidentally engaged some feng shui principles because now I feel FABULOUS.
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“It was amazing. I couldn’t believe that he was white! Really. Because, I mean,...”
– Maya Angelou on discovering Shakespeare aged nine or ten
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Maya Angelou & Jeremy Isaacs
Jeremy Isaacs: I talked to a writer the other day in this series, the English writer and novelist Jeanette Winterson, and she said, “ There’s no such thing as autobiography. There’s only art and lies.”
Maya Angelou: [She laughs] I love that! Well… that’s good.
Jeremy Isaacs: Do you reckon you’re… To what extent is the book a construct and to what extent is it reportage of what actually happened?
Maya Angelou: Oh no, I think that that’s a wonderful statement, because all art is lies, all lies are art. It’s like all riddles are blues and all blues are sad. Or funny, or something. I mean, you can’t say that… that I have spoken truth to you, even though I say this is a red blouse. Now, red to me may mean something utterly different to you. And so, my attempt to translate, to describe what I see, may be so absolutely different. What I mean by square may mean something other than what you mean by square. I believe that people can tell so many facts that they obscure the truth. You can describe the places where, the people who, the times when, the methods how, et cetera. And never get to the truth of the matter. You just blind people with data and numbers and stuff. Percentages. But the heart of the thing is lost, or beshrouded. Now, I have no hesitation in trying to get to the truth of the matter. And putting five or six facts and pieces of data together, to try to show, “Look at this, look at this, this is human, this is who we are, this is what we can stand.” So, art and lies, I like that.
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mist is so fucking beautiful
it seems like you’re constantly emerging from and chasing it at the same time.
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I would give all my worldly wealth and maybe a...
Death Cab were very very good tonight.
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“So why deliberately conceive characters who test your affection? Because in real...”
– Lionel Shriver
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going home for the weekend
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“Looking for a way to create the character of Patrick Bateman, Christian Bale...”
– American Pyscho trivia
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“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
– David Foster Wallace
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“I play back everything that has happened to me before this. I want to ask Big...”
– Amy Hempel, “The Most Girl Part of You”
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August-born children in England at an academic... →
‘They are also 20% less likely to be at a leading Russell Group university compared with a September-born teenager.
These August children are likely to have lower confidence and less likely to feel they “control their own destiny”.’
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