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There’s nothing else I wanna try

how the hell do you do this? change the colors shapes and size I’m clueless not one thing I recognize so foolish every now’s a big surprise help me to get through this stay with me until I die there’s...

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Let there be light

By John Banville ft The story of the Book of Kells, of the mystery surrounding its provenance and the anonymity of the master scribes and artists who executed it, is a splendid romance. Few emblems of...

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We will fall down and worship him as a sweet and holy and wonderful being

When any of these pantomimic gentlemen, who are so clever that they can imitate anything, comes to us, and makes a proposal to exhibit himself and his poetry, we will fall down and worship him as a...

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Luminous

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. – Yoda Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes

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The Making of a Philosophy Professor

By John Kaag chronicle “The unexamined life is not worth living.” What Socrates failed to tell us is that the examined one isn’t a whole lot better. So he wasn’t the wisest of all men. Or if he was, he...

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The Colonel’s standing in the sun with his stupid face the glasses and the gun

I know what happens I read the book I believe I just got the goodbye look – Donald Fagen Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes

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The annoyance of influence

I do not agree with Plato, but if anything could make me do so, it would be Aristotle’s arguments against him. – Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes

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A Supermarket in California

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for...

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Hologram

It is not every day that we are needed. – Samuel Beckett Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes

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Nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire

As dear old Kilvert notes, nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire, and having things pointed at with a stick. – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes

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A piece of time

Just by existing, it demanded that you believed in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you. A...

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New York’s not my home

No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky. – E. B. White Filed under: Music, Quotes, Video Tagged: Music, Quotes, Video

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Get out of my head, Jim!

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Worthy of only the most refined of refrigerator doors

Deep inside, we never quite forget the needs with which we were born: to be accepted as we are, without regard to our deeds; to be loved through the medium of our body; to be enclosed in another’s...

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All-England Summarize Proust Competition

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In the collied night

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, “Behold!” The jaws of darkness do...

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Since shepherds are the same everywhere

Mind you, she had something to say on the subject. Of the thousands of books she had read, among them books on the history of Mexico, the history of Spain, the history of Columbia, the history of...

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Suicide Watch

By Freya Johnston the-tls On September 9, 1756, Edward Moore’s journal The World published an eight-page letter from a gentleman in distress. Having abandoned legal, military, and authorial careers,...

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Mexico’s masked vigilantes defy drug gangs — and the law

By Nicholas Casey wsj AYUTLA, Mexico—Masked men, rifles slung over their shoulders, stand guard on a lonely rural road, checking IDs and questioning travelers. They wear no uniforms, flash no badges,...

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Is There A Place For The Mind In Physics? Part I

By Adam Frank npr So I want you to do something for me. I want you to think of a blue monkey. Are you ready? OK, go! Visualize it in your head. Any kind of monkey will do (as long as it’s blue). Take a...

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