October 2011
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worst things bosses have said bracket →
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Vladimir Nabokov once wrote, in a letter, that when he’d finished a novel he felt like a house after the movers had carried out the grand piano. That’s what it feels like to lose this world-historical personage. The grand piano is gone.
-the New Yorker, on Steve Jobs passing, in a quote that doesn’t irritate me Helpfully, the paste element automatically includes: Read more...
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“Werner Herzog wants us to be aliens. The filmmaker is a man from outer space. His wide-eyed wonder sometimes tries my patience, as showing around an out-of-towner can begin as an opportunity to have a chance encounter with my own city but quickly becomes obnoxious. One can’t go around marveling at every skyscraper.”
-bomb magazine, in a pretty astute criticism of what, god bless...
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“Jazz radio on a midnight kick,
Round about Midnight.
Sitting on the bed,...”
– Bob Kaufman
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“No one walks in these pyramids at night.
No one walks during
the day.
You...”
– diane wakowski
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“We’re cycling together.”
– Chris
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