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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8ddd31c | Now she and the widow had something in common, though loss did not pass from one person to another like a baton. It just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And she thought, scratching the coarseness of the horses's mane, it did not leave, once lodged, did it? It simply changed form, and asked repeatedly for attention and care as each year revealed a new knot to cry out and consider, smaller, sure, but never gone...Out of my body, .. | grief loss the-devourings | Aimee Bender | |
| 8a480bc | There's an exercise I'll do sometimes with a class in which we'll start with a word; I'll give everyone a word, and they'll write based on that word, and as they're writing I'll interrupt often and tell them to write more on the setting they're developing. I'll stop the process again and give intrusive instructions about developing the character in the setting, and on and on. The purpose of this is to allow the development of the fruit that.. | Christopher Beha | ||
| ba8fa62 | A few years ago, I listened to a rabbi give a talk and she was explaining what a blessing is. It is a naming of something, she said. What you are blessing already has to be latent in the person, otherwise it doesn't mean anything. But if it is (latent), and you bless what hasn't yet come forth - the fruit - it is a very powerful action. Think of your writing as bestowing a blessing. I'll leave you with that. (Aimee Bender, "On the Making of.. | Christopher Beha | ||
| 03f925f | My favorite of all was still the place on Vermont, the French cafe, La Lyonnaise, that had given me the best onion soup on that night with George and my father. The two owners hailed from France, from Lyon, before the city had boomed into a culinary sibling of Paris. Inside, it had only a few tables, and the waiters served everything out of order, and it had a B rating in the window, and they usually sat me right by the swinging kitchen doo.. | emotions enjoyment food food-sensor french ingredients la-lyonnaise moods rose-edelstein | Aimee Bender | |
| 2142dd7 | She too looked like a regular lady, living in the world- didn't seem particularly with it or excitable or stellar. But that chicken, bathed in thyme and butter- I hadn't ever tasted a chicken that had such a savory warmth to it, a taste I could only suitably identify as the taste of chicken. Somehow, in her hands, food felt recognized. Spinach became spinach- with a good farm's care, salt, the heat and her attention, it seemed to relax into.. | chicken ingredients madame-dupont recognition taste | Aimee Bender | |
| 73b49bb | I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses on a lavender background, and on the other side, fat lavender roses on a purple background. Which side to use? An optical-illusion namesake with which I could dry our dishes. It was soft and worn and smelled like no-nonsense laundry detergent. | dish-towel lavender optical-illusion purple rose-edelstein roses two-toned | Aimee Bender | |
| 9fa71f0 | She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a very clear point to me about how I was silent and not laughing out loud, not at all. I said it was just an expression, and that I was laughing out loud inside my own mind. | texting | Aimee Bender | |
| fc44453 | Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living. --The Physiology of Taste, Brillat-Savarin | Aimee Bender | ||
| 7e704d2 | She is walking around the living room naked and | Aimee Bender | ||
| 28f4205 | We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke. | kiss kissing | Aimee Bender | |
| b4c61e0 | An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers. | fashion fashion-humor funny | Aimee Bender | |
| f205284 | Dad lost his job. Then he got a new job. Then he got his old job back and went back to it. They were all in the same building. | humor losing-jobs | Aimee Bender | |
| 2578815 | Does it work with sandwiches? he asked. I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching with a kind of neutral curiosity, and I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, so I just unwrapped it and took a bite. It was a homemade ham-and-cheese-and-mustard sandwich, on white bread, with a thin piece of lettuce in the middle. Not bad, in the food part. Good ham, flat mustard from a functional factory. Ordinary bread. Tired lettuce-pickers. .. | ingredients love-me sandwich yelling | Aimee Bender | |
| 69d20f2 | I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 79c0e77 | But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise...I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme. | perception the-color-master | Aimee Bender | |
| d578ae3 | It's tempting to think of red for sun," she said, "but it has to be just a dash, not much. More of a dark orange and a hint of brown. And then white on yellow on white. Not bright white,' she said. 'The kind of white that makes you squint, but in a softer way...' 'Go look at fire for a while. Go spend some time with fire.' Looking at fire was interesting, I have to admit. I sat with a candle for a couple hours. It has these stages of color:.. | fire perception seeing sun | Aimee Bender | |
| b8f48a1 | But the fact was, Sherrie Marla trusted him already. When he took the ice off, and showed to her his new symmetry, she didn't flinch. His face was him to her now. It was not a map or an indicator of some abstract idea. Turned out it was only the first impression he needed to alter. | first-impressions love symmetry | Aimee Bender | |
| 73c0b57 | He said he hated talking and just wanted to look into my eyes and tell me things that way. I let him and it made my skin lift, the things in his look. | Aimee Bender | ||
| a8b5cef | Here, one wants to create the Paris of the Far West. Evening traffic on Hollywood Boulevard attempts to mimic Parisian boulevard life. However, life on the Boulevard is extinct before midnight, and the seats in front of the cafes, where in Paris one can watch street life in a leisurely manner, are missing. . . . At night the illuminated portraits of movie stars stare down from lampposts upon crowds dressed in fake European elegance - a decl.. | Mike Davis | ||
| d8683e3 | The process occurs in the U.S. and globally. Thus, many analysts have found other names for such surplus populations suffering exploitation. Comparative literature theorist Rob Nixon writes of "remaindered humans" as the compacted left-overs "on whom neoliberalism's inequities bear down most heavily."[72] Mike Davis has discussed them as what the system sees: mere "global residium."[73] Annu Jalais in India references these groups as neolib.. | Mark Lewis Taylor | ||
| a211b84 | Spurned by the upper class, Wood garnered support from the organized workers. Ira B. Davis denounced the Wall Street Democratic renegades, noting that none had objected when the state government bailed out the banks: apparently what was "virtuous in them" was "a crime in Mayor Wood or the workingmen." | Mike Wallace | ||
| 101e5e7 | people, people in every room: Clare, Viviana, Clare's new father Gordon, Teo's parents, my parents, Rose sleeping her fragrant sleep a few feet away. "We'll get hotel rooms," everyone had offered, but we told them all, "No. Stay." Sometimes, I think I would like to have us under one roof, all of us, everybody here, which makes no sense, of course. No house is big enough to hold us, with all of our tensions, all our wariness and histories. B.. | Marisa de los Santos | ||
| a7ac717 | own independent exhibition, marketing it as an American Salon des Refuses. In February 1908 eight painters showcased their work at the Macbeth Galleries. The Eight, as critic James Huneker baptized them, included Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Luks, and Shinn--the Philadelphia Five--and three others, stylistically different but equally determined to crack open NAD's restrictive practices: symbolist Arthur B. Davies (who was well wired into wealthy.. | Mike Wallace | ||
| e46d309 | Despite the wishful thinking of evangelicals impatient for the Rapture or deep ecologists who believe that Gaia would be happiest with a thin sprinkling of hunter-gatherers, megacities like Los Angeles will never simply collapse and disappear. Rather, they will stagger on, with higher body counts and greater distress, through a chain of more frequent and destructive encounters with disasters of all sorts; while vital parts of the region's h.. | Mike Davis | ||
| f3051b1 | Mike wasn't religious, but it was pretty cool to imagine a superghost carrying you when shit got a little too real. | religion | Aric Davis | |
| e97cddf | A recent Chicago study, for example, has shown that it costs $60,000 to hook up a new house in an outer suburb to the utility infrastructure as against $5,000 for the same house in an existing suburb. "Who foots the bill? Taxpayers in the established suburbs."72" | Mike Davis | ||
| bcfebcc | Day an' night they set in a room with a checker-board on th' end iv a flour bar'l, an' study problems iv th' navy. At night Mack dhrops in. 'Well, boys,' says he, 'how goes th' battle?' he says. 'Gloryous,' says th' Sthrateejy Board. 'Two more moves, an' we'll be in th' king row.' 'Ah,' says Mack, 'this is too good to be thrue,' he says. 'In but a few brief minyits th' dhrinks'll be on Spain,' he says. 'Have ye anny plans f'r Sampson's flee.. | Finley Peter Dunne | ||
| 26a9f9c | Old age ain't no place for sissies," actress Bette Davis" -- | Mike Nichols | ||
| 63affe6 | Despite the mountain of gold that has been built downtown, Los Angeles remains vulnerable to the same explosive convergence of street anger, poverty, environmental crisis, and capital flight that made the early 1990s its worth crisis period since the early Depression. | los-angeles strife | Mike Davis | |
| 1a024fa | I get to the back of the house, I damn near tear the door off the hinges. It isn't an act of fury, fury isn't part of it anymore. It's more deliberate than fury yet more instinctive than deliberation. | Steve Erickson | ||
| f4b86ac | You keep looking around for who's in fucking charge, and there's just nobody like that at all. The cops just ride their horses back and forth through the park, up and down Fifth Avenue. Who the hell's angry on Fifth Avenue, that's what I want to know. | Steve Erickson | ||
| f587bea | He held to it in the way of a man who holds the string of a kite that is so high he can't see it anymore, knowing that any moment it may break and the only way he will know it has broken will be by the sudden ripple of the string as it dances slowly groundward. | Steve Erickson | ||
| ac370d1 | When he placed a candle on the shelf across the room from him and lit its wick, he came to realize that in fact everything he saw was a flat surface, like a screen - that in fact dimension was an illusion. Everything was a flat surface and the pinpoints of light, whether from a candle on the shelf or a gaslamp above the street, were punctures in that surface - gashes made by somebody behind the screen. He realized then that beyond everythin.. | impressions light reality shadows truth | Steve Erickson | |
| d26d121 | In the dark, in no starlight at all, the blocks hurtled invisibly by, ejected into the night air; he heard them break but he believed it was only the echoes of broken windows, not even his broken windows but someone else's in some other city, people all over the night searching madly for those who transmitted the vague and unpersuasive frequency of destiny, not even this night but some other night that came before, from which the sound of b.. | Steve Erickson | ||
| f51ed04 | The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are. | Steve Erickson | ||
| c38899a | Qualunque sia il caso, lei e sparita dalla mia vita. E il prezzo che ho dovuto pagare per aver flirtato romanticamente con l'apocalisse. Sono stato cosi sciocco da credere di poter giocare con il caos, mentre era il caos a giocare con me. | steve erickson | ||
| 6731664 | I struck down his evil no matter what name it took for itself, no matter that it called itself history or revolution, America or the son of God, no matter that it called itself righteous, a righteousness that presumed the license to bind the free word and thought, that presumed the wisdom to timetable the birth of a soul, that presumed the morality that offers its children up to the plague rather than teach them the language of love. A thou.. | Steve Erickson | ||
| ac65c5c | Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning. | Steve Erickson | ||
| bf60604 | Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 9125dbb | As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate. | Steve Erickson | ||
| efc439a | It's not the meek who are inheriting the earth, Jason, it's the corruptors | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 1b71096 | There was too little space for their own--and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 2ad1ed8 | Two people were not one, | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 07794e4 | Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it. I wouldn't have five minutes. | Robert Ludlum |