May 2012
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April 2012
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At certain points, reading the work can even be said to resemble the act of...
– Norman Mailer, reviewing Tom Wolfe’s 742-page A Man in Full
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A man without a mustache is like a woman with a mustache.
– Anton Chekhov, in his Notebook
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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your...
– Kurt Vonnegut, in a letter to a man who burned his books.
March 2012
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I’ve given in to the logic of events, marriage, children, death....
– Yasmina Reza, ‘Art’
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Sgt. Robert Bales' victims' names
Why do we know a shitload about an accused murderer but almost nothing about his victims?
The dead: Mohamed Dawood son of Abdullah Khudaydad son of Mohamed Juma Nazar Mohamed Payendo Robeena Shatarina daughter of Sultan Mohamed Zahra daughter of Abdul Hamid Nazia daughter of Dost Mohamed Masooma daughter of Mohamed Wazir Farida daughter of Mohamed Wazir Palwasha daughter of Mohamed Wazir...
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February 2012
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January 2012
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If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
– Stanislaw Lec
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Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered...
– Robert Anton Wilson
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I’ll always remember that ordinary day my life changed forever, the day I met Verbal Ace, the Beat-Boxer from Outer Space.
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Yes, I’m willing to continue to have Muslim children slaughtered by covert...
– Glenn Greenwald, laying out an honest line of reasoning for prospective Obama voters
December 2011
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November 2011
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At some point, doesn’t a country’s ongoing willingness year after year to...
– Glenn Greenwald
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OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
– Steve Jobs’ last words
October 2011
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September 2011
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I hope your cups are full. I hope your vintage is untouched. In such a porcelain...
– Emily Dickinson
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August 2011
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To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
– Vladimir Nabokov
July 2011
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You know, I hate your plays. Shakespeare was a bad writer, and I consider your...
– Tolstoy, on his deathbed, to Chekhov
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IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER (July 18, 1969)
To: H.R. Haldemann
From: Bill Safire
Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.
These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.
These two men are laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal:...
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Thomas Jefferson's Horses
Allycrocker
Gustavus
Cacullin
The General
Crab
Everallyn
Alfred
Caractacus
Elthelinda
Silvertail
Orra Moor
Peggy Waffington
Zanga
Odin
Polly Peachum
Silveret
Assaragoa
Raleigh
Tarquin
Brimmer
Remus & Romulus (carriage horses)
Matchless
Fitzpartner
Wildair
Castor
Diomede
Bremo
Wellington
Tecumseh
Peacemaker
The Eagle
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But it’s a hot load of bullshit that he didn’t get a nomination, and...
– Amy Poehler, on Nick Offerman’s lack of Emmy nomination
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“You had me at ‘Meat Tornado.’”
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June 2011
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