January 2012
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“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not...”
– Richard Feynman (via oplik)
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“Touched by a masterpiece, a person begins to hear in himself that same call of...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via dwayneomosley)
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“I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via sanboin)
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“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time,...”
– The Stranger, Albert Camus (via jesuisperdu)
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“There is no such thing as a standing vase. It has to fall to prove that it is...”
– Marc Chagall (via worldpaintings)
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My Dinner with Andre
Andre: I mean, we live in a world in which fathers or single people or artists are all trying to live up to someone's fantasy of how a father or a single person or an artist should look and behave. They all act as if they know exactly how they ought to conduct themselves at every single moment. And they all seem totally self-confident. Of course, privately, people are very mixed up about themselves. They don't know what they should be doing with their lives. They're reading all these self-help books.
Wally: Oh god, I mean, those books are just so touching because they show how desperately curious we all are to know how all the others are really getting on in life, even though by performing these roles all the time we are just hiding the reality of ourselves from everybody else. I mean, we live in such ludicrous ignorance of each other. I mean, we usually don't know the things we'd like to know about our supposedly closest friends. I mean, you know, suppose you're going through some kind of hell in your own life. Well, you would love to know if your friends have experienced similar things. But we just don't dare to ask each other.
Andre: No. It would be like asking your friend to drop his role.
Wally: I mean, we just put no value at all on perceiving reality. I mean, on the contrary, this incredible emphasis that we all place now on our so-called careers automatically makes perceiving reality a very low priority. Because if your life is organized around trying to be successful in a career, well, it just doesn't matter what you perceive or what you experience. You can really sort of shut your mind off for years ahead, in a way. You can sort of turn on the automatic pilot.
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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (via shrugged)
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“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.”
– Octavia Butler (via ahnka)
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“Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would...”
– A math question on a test at a Georgia school (via iseriaqueen)
Hey I have one..
If white people enslaved black people for 500 years and paid them nothing for their contribution to the country, how much does America owe Black Americans today?
I’ll wait.
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If white...
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