January 2010
17 posts
Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest...
— Tracy Kidder, “Mountains Beyond Mountains”
Please don't be cynical. It doesn't lead anywhere....
— Conan O’Brien
“Okay, here: Remember last week when your phone battery croaked, but you were frantic to tell something called a Facebook wall that you were “yeah still po0opn lots since teh yuck tacoz rofl bt OTOh fuck yeah top up my side salad for xtra dollar bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Remember that? Okay, good. That. That was the keyboard that you were using then. It’s the keyboard that helped make the...
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own...
— Stanley Kubrick. In a Playboy interview, of all things.
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If you travelled back in time to 1963 and told...
— Jason Kottke, on dreams
We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want...
— G.K. Chesterton
From Infinite Jest:
Hal himself hasn’t had a bona fide intensity-of-interior-life-type emotion since he was tiny; he finds terms like joie and value to be like so many variables in rarified equations, and he can manipulate them well enough to satisfy everyone but himself that he’s in there, inside his own hull, as a human being — but in fact he’s far more robotic than John...