“So me and the boys we’ll start making some noise and together we can make it all pretty. We can stomp where we stand with our brothers in hand. Make the best of this god-awful city.”
“The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don’t care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn’t matter to anyone who isn’t him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.”
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- 2 months ago on Sunday
- June 27th, 2010 at 4:40pm
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“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion”
“Anyway, Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel, Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player. A beautiful song called Landslide. When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
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- 4 months ago on Friday
- May 7th, 2010 at 2:53am
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“I think photography has gotten to such an equalized place in terms of image quality that it’s really all about who you got doing what, not that you got a well exposed and composed image of it. (Although it helps.)”
“…Not a month went by without the opening of a new bowling alley; they were building them on every vacant lot, so many bowling alleys that it was horrible to ponder the meaning of it.”
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- 4 months ago on Thursday
- April 22nd, 2010 at 11:30am
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“I wanted to write all my friends and invite them down. I thought of Phil Rollins, breaking his ass in New York, chasing after stalled subways and gang-fights in Brooklyn; Duke Peterson, sitting in the White Horse and wondering what to do next; Carl Browne in London, bitching about the climate and grubbing endlessly for assignments; Bill Minnish, drinking himself to death in Rome. I wanted to cable them all — Come quick stop plenty of room in the rum barrel stop no work stop big money stop drink all day stop [women] all night stop hurry it may not last.”
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- 4 months ago on Thursday
- April 22nd, 2010 at 9:00am
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“For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.”
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- 5 months ago on Monday
- March 22nd, 2010 at 6:34pm
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“Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened.”
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- 6 months ago on Monday
- March 8th, 2010 at 9:30am
