December 2011
kellyoxford:
“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be...”
– Rumi (via libraryland)
“‘Fabulous’…. If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is; when you...”
– Tony Kushner, “Notes About Political Theater”, Kenyon Review 19 no. 3/4 (Summer–Autumn 1997): 30–1. (via phyllis-stein)
“Everything is more beautiful
because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad (via thefarfromfeed)
“In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to...”
– Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation (via gwyon)
“Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.”
– Charles Baudelaire (via balletime)
“The city that is being uncovered there is believed to have been called Yupaha,...”
– http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/22/1100-year-old-mayan-ruins-found-in-north-georgia/ (via trudymade)
“Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit...”
– George Monbiot
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers ...
