December 2010
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the inspiration for my tumblr name: "The Layers"... →
“The Layers”
I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray….
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“We have art so that we shall not die of reality.”
– Nietzsche
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From NPR’s Weekend Edition, a short piece...
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The 10th Annual Year in Ideas from NYT Magazine →
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” -Virginia Woolf”
– (via kellymccaleb)
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“Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can...”
– Brillat Savarin from The Physiology of Taste via the epigraph from one of my favorite novels of 2010, Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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"The Same Thing" by Ada Limón →
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“He ran lengths of string between the pole and the sticks, and taped to the...”
– George Saunder, Sticks
Read the full story here. It’s amazing; only two paragraphs yet it encapsulates a life.
(via enormouschanges)
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"Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass →
“All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. The idea, for example, that each particular erases the luminous clarity of a general idea…”
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“…the role of a story is to maintain the soundness of the spiritual bridge...”
– Haruki Murakami in the NYT op-ed “Reality A and Reality B”
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via recycled-words)
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nothing like the ultimate scrooge singing a...
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"Sweet Peace in Time" by Li-Young Lee →
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“people, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and...”
– [audrey hepburn] (via honorheindl)
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“A person was carrying a very heavy red leather suitcase. When opened, it...”
– Moroccan Folktale
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