“The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
—Ted Hughes (via explore-blog)
September 2012
2 posts
August 2012
6 posts
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it”
—Zora Neale Hurston (via dreamhampton1)
“You display the true marks of a Great Gourmande … which always includes the warmest and most generous of natures … and is why people who love to eat are always the best people.”
—Julia Child, who would’ve been 100 today, in a letter to her best friend, Avis DeVoto (via explore-blog)
“I think ‘creativity’ is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.”
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Also see famous creators against the fear of failure
(via explore-blog)
“Mad people = people who stand alone + burn. I’m attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.”
—Susan Sontag (via explore-blog)
verbal fog
to make silence
we must speak
the whatever-that-might-be.
July 2012
8 posts
“There is always a new New York coming into being as the old one disappears.”
—Adam Gopnik, and other favorite New York writers, on Central Park (via explore-blog)
Play
June 2012
7 posts
“All education should strive to help those receiving it to gain enough freedom in relation to works of art to themselves become writers and artists.”
—Psychoanalyst and University of Paris literature professor Pierre Baynard in the excellent How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read (via explore-blog)
“The Salem trials are a seminal trope in American history, one that has repeated itself over and over in various forms – both literary and political – throughout the years. At its heart is the notion of the doubleness of life: you are not who you are, but have a secret and probably evil twin; more importantly, the neighbours are not who you think they are. They might be witches, in the 17th century, or people who will falsely accuse you of being a witch; or traitors, in the 18th century, at the time of the revolution; or communists, in the 20th; or people who will stone you to death, in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”; or terrorists, in the 21st.”
—Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury in The Guardian
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
—R. Buckminster Fuller (via less-ismore)
