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May 22nd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
“Un grand écrivain se remarque au nombre de pages qu’il ne publie pas.”
“Vaincre le hasard mot pour mot.”
- Stéphane Mallarmé
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May 22nd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
“MG: Talking of our generation — I mean ours (we’re exactly the same age) — a real symptom of it, as this conversation is so aptly demonstrating, is that we keep referencing theory when we talk about our work. More than that: theory informs the making of it.
TMCC: But that’s always the case, even for people who claim not to ‘have’ theory. ‘Not’ having theory just means having crap theory, i.e. adhering to a humanism that has erased all traces of its own constructedness.”
- Tom McCarthy and Margarita Gluzberg, “Circuits and Loops,” BOMBlog 4 May 2012
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May 8th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
“I often feel one drink away from whatever makes dogs hump women’s legs.”
- Greg Baxter, A Preparation for Death (2010)
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May 2nd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
“Ah ! princesse, vous n’êtes pas Guermantes pour des prunes.”
- Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu
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April 2nd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
“There’s nothing terrible inside us or on earth or possibly in heaven itself except what hasn’t been said yet. We won’t be easy in our minds until everything has been said once and for all, then we’ll fall silent and we’ll no longer be afraid of keeping still. That will be the day.”
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
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March 27th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
“I’ve always tried to avoid the expected word.”
- Christine Brooke-Rose, 2002
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March 25th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
“…’Everything is to be found in Peter Rabbit,’ the Consul liked to say…”
- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
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March 17th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
“Every love story is a ghost story.”
- David Foster Wallace, The Pale King 2011. [The same line appears in "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko", a story included in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.]
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February 19th, 2012 § 2 Comments
“To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.”
- Witold Gombrowicz, Diaries 1953
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January 7th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
“[T]here is but one art: to omit! O, if I knew how to omit, I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knew how to omit would make an Iliad out of a daily newspaper.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to his cousin, 1883
