From The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume One:

"I have the done the vilest things, foulest things, but I have done them superbly, and I feel I have passed through them, I feel intact, I feel innocent ( Read more... )

From The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume One:

I am dressing more simply. I have felt much less the need of an original way of dressing. I can wear ordinary clothes now. Why? Costume was, for me, very symbolical. It meant many things. It had, first of all, a poetic significance: colors for certain occasions, evocations of other styles, countries ( ( Read more... )

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose:

"And as for the heretics, I also have a rule, and it is summed up in the reply that Arnold Amalaricus Bishop of Cîteau, gave to those who asked him what to do with the citizens of Béziers: Kill them all, God will recognize His own ( Read more... )

Anais Nin, Henry and June:

I might be down in the dumps a hundred times, but each time I would clamber out again to good coffee on a lacquered tray beside an open fire. Each time I would clamber out to silk stockings and perfume. Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are ( Read more... )

Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio:

"The vigor of the crack-cocaine economy during the late 1980s and early 1990s was largely the result of an aggressive federal drug policy prioritizing the criminal repression of smuggling. Sometime in the early to mid-1980s, marijuana importers working the Latin American supply ( Read more... )

I have a friend who is so deeply connected with God that he can see joy where I expect only sadness. He travels much and meets countless people. When he returns home, I always expect him to tell me about the difficult economic situation of the countries he visited, about the great injustices he heard about, and the pain he has seen. But even though ( Read more... )

If I had the influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later years, sterile preoccupations with things ( Read more... )

Whenever someone talks about the NEW WAVE they mean the 'new wave' of music and musicians that have emerged and influenced the scene in the last two years. The only new wave is in music. It has succeeded and failed. Succeeded with a reappraisal of the ideas, aims, and philosophies of a new set of musicians and of audiences. It failed by our lack to ( Read more... )

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H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds:

"What does it mean?" he said. "What do these things mean ( Read more... )