January 2012
16 posts
“But the negative and distorted image of women deeply affects not only how men...”
– Jean Kilbourne, Killing Us Softly
“Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to see what happens...”
– Humans have the need to read | Gail Rebuck | Comment is free | The Guardian (via myserendipities)
“Why are some languages quite regular and others not? The historical linguist...”
– Why are some languages more regular than others? (via myserendipities)
“Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can...”
– robert pinsky (via quellequaintrelle)
“We must trust people. Otherwise life is impossible.”
– Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
“Fancies find rooms in the strongest minds.”
– The Mayor of Casterbridge
“There is an outer chamber of the brain in which thoughts unowned, unsolicited,...”
– The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Her bygone simplicity was the art that conceals art.”
– The Mayor of Casterbridge
“When she walked abroad she seemed to be occupied with an inner chamber of ideas,...”
– The Mayor of Casterbridge
1 tag
“As you grow older you realize that there are bad lines in King Lear and it has...”
– robert gottlieb (via quellequaintrelle)
December 2011
13 posts
“It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man— that question I...”
– Jude the obscure
“Still, Sue, it is no worse for the woman than for the man. That’s what...”
“Children begin with detail, and learn up to the general; they begin with the...”
– Jude the obscure
“Apart from ourselves, and our unhappy peculiarities, it is foreign to a...”
– Jude the obscure
“I daresay you think me eccentric, or super-sensitive, or something absurd....”
– Jude the obscure
“I have been thinking,” she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of...”
“I have been looking at the marriage service in the prayer-book, and it seems to...”
– Jude the obscure
“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by...”
– Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
8 tags
“Research shows that the more self-expansion people experience from their...”
– Sustainable Love - Tara Parker-Pope on Happy Marriages - NYTimes.com
November 2011
13 posts
“Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“I don’t know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“I’m really kind of astonished at how readily a great many people I know—young...”
– Jaron Lanier (It was hard to know where to start and stop transcribing this—it’s from a video—because he really packs in a ton of interesting ideas into a small verbal space.)
“The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.”
– Alvin Toffler (via chrbutler)
“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in...”
– Anton Chekhov (via thelibraryharlot)
“I am a bug, and I recognize in all humility that I cannot understand why the...”
– Ivan Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov (via hells-bells-trudy)
“There are many solutions to many problems in many dimensions, that is the beauty...”
– now writing the next step..
Wildcat: The Substance of WE Polytopia
(via wildcat2030)
October 2011
11 posts
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“It is a dangerous thing to order the lives of others and I have often wondered...”
– Somerset Maugham
7 tags
“…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from...”
– einstein (via quellequaintrelle)
7 tags
“Literature is a process of producing beautiful lies that tell more truth than...”
– julian barnes (via quellequaintrelle)
“If you are a person who is easily embarassed, you may find comfort in what...”
– People Who Are Easily Embarassed Are More Trustworthy (via myserendipities)