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""It was becoming increasingly easy to see how people ended up vanishing in cities, disappearing in plain sight . . . I was getting a taste of it, all right, but what on earth would it be like to live the whole of your life like this, occupying the blind spot in other people's existences, their noisy intimacies? If anyone can be said to have worked from that place, it's Henry Darger" (p. 136)." — Apr 13, 2016 07:57PM
""It was becoming increasingly easy to see how people ended up vanishing in cities, disappearing in plain sight . . . I was getting a taste of it, all right, but what on earth would it be like to live the whole of your life like this, occupying the blind spot in other people's existences, their noisy intimacies? If anyone can be said to have worked from that place, it's Henry Darger" (p. 136)." — Apr 13, 2016 07:57PM
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""Garbo's face is an Idea, Hepburn's an Event" (p. 75, "Garbo's Face").
"If God is really speaking through Dr. Graham's mouth, it must be acknowledged that God is quite stupid" (p. 110, "Billy Graham at the Vel' d'Hiv'")." — Aug 26, 2013 05:52PM
""Garbo's face is an Idea, Hepburn's an Event" (p. 75, "Garbo's Face").
"If God is really speaking through Dr. Graham's mouth, it must be acknowledged that God is quite stupid" (p. 110, "Billy Graham at the Vel' d'Hiv'")." — Aug 26, 2013 05:52PM
“She always walked under the arches of nights
And everywhere she went
She left
The mark of broken things.”
― Capital of Pain
And everywhere she went
She left
The mark of broken things.”
― Capital of Pain
“Our libraries are so to speak prisons where we've locked up our intellectual giants, naturally Kant has been put in solitary confinement, like Nietzsche, like Schopenhauer, like Pascal, like Voltaire, like Montaigne, all the real giants have been put in solitary confinement, all the others in mass confinement, but everyone for ever and ever, my friend, for all time and unto eternity, that's the truth.”
― The Loser
― The Loser
“I tend to agree with the theory that if you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited, you alter it irrevocably, remembering not the original impression left by experience but the last time you recalled it. With tiny differences creeping in at each cycle, the exercise of our memory does not bring us closer to the past but draws us further away.”
― Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
― Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
“I'm in agony: I want the colorful, confused and mysterious mixture of nature. All the plants and algae, bacteria, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals concluding man with his secrets.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“She was beautiful and lithe, with soft skin the color of bread and eyes like green almonds, and she had straight black hair that reached to her shoulders, and an aura of antiquity that could just as well have been Indonesian as Andean. She was dressed with subtle taste: a lynx jacket, a raw silk blouse with very delicate flowers, natural linen trousers, and shoes with a narrow stripe the color of bougainvillea. ‘This is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen,’ I thought, when I saw her pass by with the stealthy stride of a lioness, while I waited in the check-in line at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for the plane to New York.”
― Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
― Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
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