What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment -- maybe, say,
six weeks -- nobody understood art.
Morton Feldman
You're going to preposterously and conniptionly stand there in front of
my indelible face and try to tell me that? You're going to umbilically and
contraptionally stand there with your Sherry-Netherlands hanging out and tell
me that?
Sid Caesar
Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby
becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get
painting off the ground of conventional representation.
Peter Schjeldahl
Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been
rare.
Lawrence Wright
According to former team president Jon Spoelstra, one of the lowest of
the the Nets low points came during his tenure. "We had six guys in
jail," he said. "Not together, because that would have meant
teamwork."
Bill Littlefield
I don't read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to
Walter Cronkite's rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air:
Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.
Roger Angell
I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense
feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There
was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then
some more terrible things.
Susanna Kaysen, "Cambridge"
A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager
who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout
Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger
to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox
and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had
been bestowed upon him.
Terry Hayes, "I Am Pilgrim"
Terry Hayes, "I Am Pilgrim"
WISHES
Not to worry: After all, twice in this century we beat
them at their national game.
Margaret
Thatcher, re England losing in soccer to Germany
Recently remodelled from the fire station, it was a place where self-published poets found a platform, and sour white wine was dispensed from boxes; on Saturday mornings there were classes in self-assertion, yoga and picture framing.
Hilary Mantel, "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher"
My mother remembers that in 1967 her father, my grandfather, a Communist
and anti-Zionist, saw images on television of Israeli warplanes and muttered
quietly, as if embarrassed by the sentiment, "Imagine, an air force of
Jewish boys."
Mark
Oppenheimer, "Zionism for Refugees"
"Just the years kicking in," Claire said. "Did you know
dead is the new eighty?"
Anne Bernays
"X-ray"
"Philosospasms" -- the kind we often suffered stogether.
David Cronenberg, "Consumed"
I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going:
It's like a row of restaurants in California.
Clive James
Portnoy is as rich with ire as with lust. Who isn't? Look at Robert
Fagles's translation of "The Iliad." What's the first word?
"Rage." That is how the whole of European literature begins: singing
the virile rage of Achilles.
Philip Roth
They walked together for a little, arm in arm. They were talking about
their bowel movements. Loyalty from that quarter was the one thing necessary,
said Ricasoli, for absolute peace of mind.
Penelope Fitzgerald, "Innocence"
Several of the now-banned acts (for example, face-sitting) are
cornerstones of "femdom" pornography, which carries explicit messages
of female domination, agency and pleasure.
Jenny Kutner "UK bans spanking and female ejaculation in
porn."
SCHOLEM: This is hashish. . . not tobacco!
ADORNO (astonished): How did you get hold of
hashish up here?
BENJAMIN (laughs): If you must know, Sigmund
Freud told me where to get some.
ADORNO: I thought he was into cocaine.
BENJAMIN: The same dealer handles both.
Carl Djerassi, "Four Jews on Parnassus -- A Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg"
Carl Djerassi, "Four Jews on Parnassus -- A Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg"
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