September 2010
“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
– — Gabriel García Márquez
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via musingsfromgamblersrock)
As far as I am concerned, Borges does exist. He is THE definitive writer of the last century.
(via uzairm)
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.”
– — Chinese proverb
“And what do you think? Gay soldiers are getting something out of the deal? ‘Hey...”
– Amy Poehler “Really”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent,...”
– — Charles Darwin
“The hero is the man who resists his father’s authority and overcomes it”
– Sigmund Freud
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in...”
– Jim Morrison
“‘Come to the edge’, he said. They said, ‘We are afraid’. ‘Come to the edge’, he...”
– Guillaume Apollinaire
“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of those who do evil, but because of...”
– Albert Einstein
“I think we can’t go ‘round measuring our goodness by what we don’t do, what we...”
– Chocolat
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– Philip K. Dick
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
– The “shortest horror story ever written” attributed to Frederic Brown.
The Angry Rich and Taxes
Anger is sweeping America. True, this white-hot rage is a minority phenomenon, not something that characterizes most of our fellow citizens. But the angry minority is angry indeed, consisting of people who feel that things to which they are entitled are being taken away. And they’re out for revenge. No, I’m not talking about the Tea Partiers. I’m talking about the rich. These are terrible times...
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via silversouled, parallel-synchronized-randomness) (via artisnothing) (via jamais-tre-vu)
“Books like silent snow,
Settled on their peaceful shelves,
Disrupted by man.”
– Jim Sauer (via prettybooks) 