January 2010
25 posts
J.D. Salinger, 91, Is Dead - ArtsBeat Blog -... →
So when is the movie coming out? →
“Be not afeard.
The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give...”
– Shakespeare, The Tempest. A favorite passage of mine; I loved it the first time I read it and I will always, always love it.
“If we couldn’t get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we...”
– John Irving
“He believed in character. He wanted to jump back a whole generation and trust in...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I dumped my parents and had a beer at a pleasant cafe, on the second floor of a...”
– Jean Paul Sartre (from his letters)
“I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I...”
– Aldous Huxley
“But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly...”
– John Irving
“Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep...”
– T.S. Eliot, from The Wasteland
“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
– Norman Maclean
I left a paper trail
Back in high school, I used to collect pages and pages of quotes that I liked. I found a few this morning, and am happy to report that I still like them. This is good. It is important to appreciate your teenage self.
Oh, did I mention I love miniatures?
Yes, yes I do. The below are of the Christmas village that was under our tree this year. I love how they look like movie stills, or scenes from another world.
Two things I saw from the N train over the...
1) A man in his underpants, in his apartment, getting milk from the fridge.
2) A flock of birds hovering, weightless, in a cloud formation over the water beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, just shy of South Street Seaport.