March 2012
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Clashing Ideologies: The Traditionalist and the... →
fortuneandglory:
In this essay, I discuss the conflicting views of conservatives and progressives throughout the 20th century, highlighting the political struggle over race relations in Lawrence, Kansas throughout the 1950s, where “infringing on the rights of whites” was continuously cited as the reasoning behind upholding discriminatory laws, moving on to the conservative attempt to derail the...
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“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized:...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via 4mbivalent)
“I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (via troubled)
“Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.”
– Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (via honeyforthehomeless)
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“He felt a keen pang of nostalgia, but he didn’t know for what. Maybe for the...”
– Jay McInerney, Ransom (via fortuneandglory)
“One resolves to do these things, one wants to do them; but when the time comes,...”
– George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Ideas always do sounds so much better during the night than they do the next morning, don’t they? (via fortuneandglory)
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“Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a...”
– The Elements of Style by William Strunk & E.B. White challenged so much of what I knew about writing when I first read it at eighteen years old. I had arrogantly assumed that the praise from teachers throughout high school for my ability to properly use and identify a gerund equated brilliance....
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fortuneandglory:
The worst part about finishing a book is returning it to its bookshelf and facing the relentlessly impossible decision of choosing the next book to read.
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“The Super PACs have played a key role, unfortunately, in my view, because most...”
– Sen. John McCain • Speaking on the 2012 presidential election, which he called “the nastiest I have ever seen.” Remember, this is coming from the guy who once was falsely accused of birthing a black child out of wedlock. So his standards are pretty high as far as nasty races go. McCain, a longtime...
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Robert Reich: What Republicans Argue When They... →
robertreich:
Republicans are desperate. They can’t attack Obama on jobs because the jobs picture is improving.
Their attack on the Administration’s rule requiring insurers to cover contraception has backfired, raising hackles even among many Republican women.
Their attack on Obama for raising gas prices has…
“What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple; at least...”
– Walker Percy, The Moviegoer (via fortuneandglory)
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“[I]n order for Mom to be able to go on welfare if she has a child out of...”
– Rick Santorum, 1994, advocating paternity tests for every single mother on welfare. (via jonathan-cunningham)
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fortuneandglory:
Rick Santorum has made me want to throw all of my sweater vests into the garbage.
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fortuneandglory:
Seriously though, I can’t wait for the Hollywood adaptation where the white guy single-handedly frees all of the black child soldiers who will then crowd around him to touch him with gratitude while cheering his name with delight as the screen fades out.
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed,...”
– C.G. Jung, near the end of his life, in Memories, Dreams, Reflections” (via heartmindspirit)
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“I don’t know what’s in Rush Limbaugh’s heart so I’m not going to comment on the...”
– President Obama, commenting on the Rush Limbaugh controversy in today’s press conference. (via dcdecoder) (via forsheiswhatiam)
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fortuneandglory: d00tdowhatsit: “Temporary”...
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fortuneandglory:
It’s time to stop using “-gate” as the suffix for every possible scandal slightly related to politics. Seriously, folks. There is even a Wikipedia entry listing them. It stopped being clever or cute sometime around 1976. Besides the fact that adding the suffix rarely makes any sense (“Get it? Because they’re both scandals!”), it’s even less clever or cute when they vast majority...
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fortuneandglory:
The prior excerpts that I posted from The Paris Review’s collection of Steinbeck’s writings about the craft of writing I had read in the past. This next excerpt I have not and it is equal parts hysterical and fascinating. Below, in a letter to his good friend and editor Pascal Covici (to whom Steinbeck dedicated East of Eden), Steinbeck writes a satirical summation of dialogue...
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“What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple; at least...”
– Walker Percy, The Moviegoer (via fortuneandglory)
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“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed,...”
– John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (via fortuneandglory)
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“You know, we gotta do it someday… throw away all the guns and invite all the...”
– Hawkeye, M*A*S*H (via fortuneandglory)
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fortuneandglory:
Jonathan: You must be Lakshmi Bargava.
Lakshmi: I am very impressed by your pronunciation.
Jonathan: Thank you. I listen to a lot of NPR.
-Bored to Death, Episode 2x5: “Forty-Two Down!”
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“I hope you’re very happy. And I hope she knows you only like the beginnings of...”
– Mad Men, 4x13 - “Tomorrowland”
Truer words have never been spoken.
(via fortuneandglory)
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“She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (via fortuneandglory)
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The way we treat the poor is disgusting
anticapitalist:
When there’s a poor person on the street asking for money, or help of any kind, the looks people give him/her are appalling. People are very skeptical. It’s been ingrained in people’s minds that poor people are only asking for money to pay for drugs or to buy beer. They’re only poor because they don’t work hard. And other shit like that. The poor are treated like dirt.
But the...
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“He found her more beautiful and youthful than ever, but more lost to him than...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (via fortuneandglory)
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“This is just shit. It’s happening. No blame. Happening and on the rise it would...”
– One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author and counterculture icon Ken Kesey in a 1993 letter to poet Allen Ginsberg (via fortuneandglory)
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“I just don’t know why they’re shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them...”
– Hawkeye, M*A*S*H (via fortuneandglory)
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fortuneandglory:
All rational thought disappears when I take a nap. I set my alarm to limit my nap to 35 minutes and when it goes off, my brain refuses to accept it.
“No, just twenty more minutes. I know for sure that I will be ready to wake up then.”
Reset my alarm. Twenty minutes pass and the alarm goes off.
“No, just twenty more minutes. I can just do my school work that is due at midnight...
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“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. And sometimes if...”
– John Steinbeck on writing (from The Paris Review)
