February 2012
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“Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I should be a film editor. I’m a magician. And if I’m good,...”
– Teller, to a young magician.
“Your fragility is also your strength.”
– Pina Bausch, to her dancers.
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“The homeland of a writer, [someone] said, is his language. […] Though...”
– Roberto Bolaño. From Between Parenthesis which I happily discovered at the local library last week.
A philosophy teacher I had once said (something like) you could do worse than to read a little Montaigne every day, to which I would add Bolaño.
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“The sperm whale has gone so far into philosophical studies that he sees The...”
– John C Lilly, quoted in NYRB. His is an intriguing bibliography on Wikipedia.
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