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From Quoteworld’s Quote of the Day
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” — Stella Adler (1902-1992), American actress
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Also, I’ll have mega-strength and really great hair
From overheardnyc: Professor: In 10 years, I want to have just been released from jail. I lived in a 5×5 cell, but I’m really fit ’cause I learned Pilates. I’m also an expert in the tango. I practiced in jail by myself, of course, but once I find a girl to dance with I’ll be…
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Ashbery to Ashbery
You are John Ashbery. People love your work buthave no idea why, really. You are respected byall kinds of scholars and poets. Even artistslike you. Which Famous Modern American Poet Are You Quizilla, etc. Ashbery’s works are characterized by a free-flowing, often disjunctive syntax, extensive linguistic play, often infused with considerable humor, and a prosaic,…
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Aw, crap
Atwood’s back in the gang. Literature is an uttering, or outering, of the human imagination. It lets the shadowy forms of thought and feeling – heaven, hell, monsters, angels and all – out into the light, where we can take a good look at them and perhaps come to a better understanding of who we…
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Lines in the sand. Or, in the dirt.
When is it self-indulgence & when would you call it courage? When do you go from uncompromising to obscurantist, from individual to irrelevant, from subverting the dominant paradigm, to wilfully antagonistic? I saw ‘Yes’ the other night at the Syd Film Festival, a film written/directed by Sally Potter starring Joan Allen and Sam Neil, delivered…
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Things best left unknown
I’m blocked. I was reading this book, quite happily — well, not *quite* happily, that’s the problem, that’s why I slowed, stopped, looked around. And when I looked around I became — — blocked — — unable to continue with confidence. It was weird, but to start from the beginning: when I was, what, 19,…
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And further to that last post on beauty
Check out body_impolitic: “They own the mass imagery. They have a lock on what you see, until and unless you are willing to cast your eyes farther. And you can talk and write about body image until you’re blue in the face, but if you aren’t showing images, you aren’t doing squat. If you aren’t…
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Sugar and spice
Ditmar results announced: congratulations to all who won & all who were nominated! What she sez: Yay, Justine Larbalestier, for poking holes in that whole ‘woe is me, it’s just not the same around here since the golden age ended’ rubbish some people go on with. Please. I hate that shit. The best chance we…
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‘How can you wake from a nightmare if you can’t sleep?’
Maybe if I’d heard the tagline for ‘The Machinist’ (above — & yes, it’s that film where Christian Bale looks as malnourished as a POW) before I saw the movie, I would’ve understood it more. Because that’s the thing…
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Femininity: Define
From feminist_otd: “The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.” — Katherine Graham, journalist, publisher of the Washington Post. I’ve heard it said that Lucille Ball, despite being in charge of a hugely successful TV production…