December 2011
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“There was so much to write.”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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“La vie m’est insupportable… Pardonnez-moi”
– Dalida’s suicide note
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November 2011
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Paris: The Thing That Everyone's Seen →
On the last night in Paris, I visit the Eiffel Tower, because no one can be cynical about the Eiffel Tower, even in February. I went up once, but not to the top. It was closed because of the wind. But I have never really needed to go up, to get the true bird’s eye. Once you have done it from the Tour Montparnasse or the Sacre Coeur, you don’t need to do it again, to see miniscule...
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“How is your husband worth 34 mil and you have teeth like a hobo??”
– anonymous band message board
October 2011
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From the November, 2011 Issue of Harper's Bazaar
Interviewer: Have you ever said something in the press that you would want to take back?
Giorgio Armani: Yes, quite often.
Interviewer: In English, we have the expression, "I put my foot in my mouth." Do you do that?
Giorgio Armani: Yes, but now I wear very nice shoes.
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“It’s not like I can take credit for an ingenious idea. I just pulled down...”
– Mark Wahlberg
September 2011
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“It is fair to say that whether it intends to or not, the whole world is...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
August 2011
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“It is always like this: The best parties are made by people in trouble.”
– Amy Bloom, Away
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“Do you think because you are virtuous, that there shall be no more cakes and...”
– Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (2.3)
July 2011
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“The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”
– Bull Durham
June 2011
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“Mild warmth and relaxation is sought with a glass of spirits; but becoming...”
– Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
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“It’s a teenage symphony to God.”
– Brian Wilson, describing Smile
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Writing on the Small Scale
I am a bit cynical about “flash” or “micro” fiction. So much of it feels half-baked to me, or like the first potential-filled sentence of something that ultimately feels unsatisfying. But I just bought this book — Hint Fiction. (It’s on sale for $4.50 Amazon, if you’re curious. Even the price, it seems, is micro.) It’s probably the best shot at an...
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May 2011
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“Oh, for some of that New York spirit! Over there, you can look all fucked-up and...”
– Money, Martin Amis
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“And I know that the only difference between me and the people judging me is that...”
– Enron, Lucy Prebble
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“And what was it for — the swimming pools? The highways? The ballgames in...”
– Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Michael Friedman
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Amazon has lots of albums for $5.
The only ones I want are ones I already have.
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April 2011
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Montmartre Cemetery in Winter
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“Obscurity is the privilege of young things.”
– Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
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“It was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run...”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms,...”
– Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
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“The place of the cure of the soul”
– Inscribed above the stacks in the ancient Library of Alexandria
March 2011
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“Here in the beating heart of the economic world: America. In the heart of...”
– Enron, Lucy Prebble
February 2011
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“Maybe I am crazy, I thought. For real, I mean, not as a ploy.”
– Frank Portman, King Dork
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“Also featured are many complete morons. That is the nature of people that show...”
– Intro, Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
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“There were also some studies linking the drug to depression, but Audrey wondered...”
– Francesca Lia Block, Blood Roses