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Last Night's Sleep

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:14:00 -0500

Illness can announce itself pleasurably: the languor that is product of cold mornings and warm bedclothes, the kink in the back that you think will be relieved after a stretch.

@parisreview The idea is to perceive your invention as a reality that can be understood as a dream....

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:26:45 -0500

@parisreview The idea is to perceive your invention as a reality that can be understood as a dream. -Philip Roth

slaughterhouse90210: “Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:23:54 -0500

slaughterhouse90210:

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

"Writing: a field where the consequences of mediocrity are considerably more serious than in banking..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:51:27 -0500

“Writing: a field where the consequences of mediocrity are considerably more serious than in banking or the law.”

- @alaindebotton

Nervous Breakthrough: Carrie Fisher on Wishful Drinking

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:53:40 -0500

Nervous Breakthrough: Carrie Fisher on Wishful Drinking

"The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:40:00 -0500

“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

- George Bernard Shaw (via devilduck)

Zadie Smith on Changing My Mind, her new collection of essays...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:39:16 -0500

Zadie Smith on Changing My Mind, her new collection of essays (NPR)

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:36:43 -0500

““I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.””

- Edgar Allan Poe (via quote-book) (via upcloseandoutoffocus)(via labarceloneta)

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:53:48 -0500

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

- Sylvia Plath (via projectlyric) (via 24storyloveaffair) (via iampoetry) (via labarceloneta)

"I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:24:06 -0500

“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it’s what Yeats called the fascination with what’s difficult. I’m only trying to do what I can’t do.”

- Lucien Freud, to Michael Kimmelman, quoted in a smart essay by writer Samantha Peale, whose novel, The American Painter Emma Dial, I am reading now and thoroughly enjoying. Whew. (via rach)

sometimesagreatnotion: slaughterhouse90210: “This is why I...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:13:18 -0500

sometimesagreatnotion:

slaughterhouse90210:

“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
— Carol Shields, Unless

I disapprove of the book he’s reading in the picture, but entirely agree with this quote. Unrelenting monologue!

Agreed.

last year in Berlin: we had to store the smelly cheese between...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:35:00 -0500

last year in Berlin: we had to store the smelly cheese between the windowpanes.

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:26:21 -0500

"From tiny experiences we build cathedrals."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:45:40 -0500

“From tiny experiences we build cathedrals.”

- Orham Pamuk, quoted from a reading held last night at 92Y (via buongiorno)

benjaminhilts:crashinglybeautiful: Franz Kafka - The Trial,...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:47:30 -0500

benjaminhilts:crashinglybeautiful:

Franz Kafka - The Trial, Page 1

"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:58:52 -0500

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.”

- Margaret Atwood (via robot-heart)

benjaminhilts: Q and A - by tom gauld

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:55:06 -0500

benjaminhilts:

Q and A - by tom gauld

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity. (via raptoravatar)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:51:00 -0500

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity. (via raptoravatar)

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:30:35 -0500

Freud and the Uncanny

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:29:57 -0500

While visiting a friend in London, I decided to stop in at the Freud Museum, which I had visited as a child with my psychoanalyst father. I spent a long time in the museum looking at his collection of antiquities and the home movies which show Freud playing with his pet Chows.

A week after my trip, my father called. One of his patients had been in London at the same time and had also visited the museum. He told my father - I saw a young woman at the Freud museum, and I imagined that she was your daughter.