December 2011
16 posts
Intelligence, success, and love. don’t take their meanings for granted. Education is not intelligence. Don’t let others define success for you. Love is not used for feeding your ego.
Question of the day:
Is it possible to think one’s way out of loneliness
Is that what people do when they pray
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I gave up a little on writing. Thoughts and feelings lose the strength they had in my head and dissipate in all directions once I try to say or write it out of me. They lose too much weight or appear odd, naked. I write. and the next day look at what had been born from my need to speak. and I almost always hate the cold independence of these letters. But I always come back… to write is to...
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We all fear death and question our place in the universe; the artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
- Gertrude Stein
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A few days ago I discovered the existence of a zine section at the library, which led to
→ the discovery of thelalatheory.com’s cute little book, which led to
→ the discovery of some real delicious linguistics-related tidbits of knowledge
such as:
The La-La Theory: the beautifully poetic idea that language developed in this way:
The need to express emotion →caused the creation...
It is so strange how the forms of a body can appear ugly or beautiful. The angle of a nose, the cells upon cells that form the hills and valleys of a figure, the parabola of an eyelash.
What simple lines become in a human mind is incomprehensible.
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“The trick to not feeling cheated is to learn how to cheat. So, I decided this...”
– Penelope, The Brothers Bloom
People forget that
money is the means to an end
Whereas Love is not the means but the End.
“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge...”
– Nikola Tesla (1926)
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Silver Dagger covered by White Antelope.
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan