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Category Archives: Quotations
Quote of the Day
Michel Houellebecq on Children & Adults: “Few adults, very few, are aware to what extent children watch their parents, constantly on the lookout for some sign of how they should approach the world; how sharp and vibrant their intelligence is … Continue reading
Bellow’s Letters: Two Quotations
Bellow’s Letters: Two Quotations “Really,” Bellow writes to Lionel Trilling in 1952, “things are now what they always were, and to be disappointed in them is extremely shallow. We may not be strong enough to live in the present. But … Continue reading
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Washington D.C. Diary
We visited Washington D.C. on Columbus Day weekend for what seemed like the last exhalation of “summer’s honeyed breath.” It was balmy enough to eat outside each night. On Sunday afternoon, we rented bikes from the city’s new “rent-a-bike” system … Continue reading
The Eternal Twain
“Little has changed since Mark Twain offered this assessment: ‘Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.’” (from Timothy Egan’s Opinionater blog post “The Mirthless Senate” in The New York Times.)
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Tagged Congress, idiots, Mark Twain, Mirthless Senate, New York Times, Opinionator, political humor, politics, satire, senate United States Senate, Timothy Egan, US Senate
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From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others
What to do with such knowledge as photographs bring of faraway suffering? People are often unable to take in the sufferings of those close to them. […] For all the voyeuristic lure—and the possible satisfaction of knowing, This is … Continue reading
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Tagged action, apathy, compassion, images of war and violence, power, Regarding the Pain of Others, suffering, Susan Sontag
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