February 2012
115 posts
W. W. Norton: Charlotte Brontë on Jane Austen →
wwnorton:
I have likewise read one of Miss Austen’s works—Emma—read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensible and suitable. Anything like warmth or enthusiasm—anything energetic, poignant, heart-felt is utterly out of place in commending these works: all such demonstration the authoress would have met with a well-bred sneer,...
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
“What Is Cinema?” Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, October 1, 1952).
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“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise. (via jessbend)
“Children have always read books written for adults, even while their own body of...”
– Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age (1999) by Eliza Dresang (via presentingbooks)
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“I get really upset when I’m walking downtown and there are three young people...”
– Jerry Manock, Apple’s very first designer. (via curiositycounts)
comelylittletree:
One by one we made the public benches Sacred to us. What did we talk about? The University was delay, a sentence To be borned with & escaped. Our only life was to come. Suspended We hung there moving our legs, seeing The scenery flow past like the silent river, Were we actually going anywhere? Were we exploring? Or talking away Bewilderment, or trying word-shapes ...
colettesaintyves:
Edvard Grieg - In the Hall of...
