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#152

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

tags: cameras, photography

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#153

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: darkness, poetry, sadness

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#154

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: november

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#155

“open me carefully”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

tags: correspondence, emily-dickinson, letter

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#156

“I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

tags: anthropology

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#157

“It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.”
― Ian Tattersall, Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins

tags: anthropology

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#158

“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: anger, azkaban, harry-potter, justice, murder, revenge, sirius-black, wormtail

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#159

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: conditioning, evolution, evolving, freedom, individuality, jim-morrison, murder, parents, potential, progress, self, self-awareness

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#160

“He kills her in her own humor.”
― Shakespeare

tags: humor, shakespeare, taming-of-the-shrew

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#161

“Circumstances bring people together, and take them apart. One cannot keep up with everyone in a lifetime.”
― Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

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#162

“Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

tags: champagne, contentment, curiosity, doubt, envy, foes, friends, hope, idleness, inventory, knowledge, laughter, life, love, sorrow, sufficienty, superfluity, unattainable, values, wisdom

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#163

“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth

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#164

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide

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#165

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: courtship, cynicism, love, lying, passion

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#166

“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

[Women Know Everything!]”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: bad-reviews, fancy, raisins, terrible, wordplay

746 likes

#167

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: dance, dancing, definition, innuendo, sex, widely-misattributed, wordplay

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#168

“Photographs are just light and time,”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: john-green, photography, time, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#169

“Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

tags: history, photography

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#170

“A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: image, photography, unlimited

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#171

“All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulation: that is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds. Ideologies create substantiating archives of images, representative images, which encapsulate common ideas of significance and trigger predictable thoughts, feelings.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

tags: ideologies, memory, photography

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#172

“I am no ecological Pollyana. I have borne, and will continue to bear, feelings of wholehearted melancholy over the ecological state of the earth. How could I not? How could anyone not? But I am unwilling to become a hand-wringing nihilist, as some environmental 'realists' seem to believe is the more mature posture. Instead, I choose to dwell, as Emily Dickinson famously suggested, in possibility, where we cannot predict what will happen but we make space for it, whatever it is, and realize that our participation has value. This is grown-up optimism, where our bondedness with the rest of creation, a sense of profound interaction, and a belief in our shared ingenuity give meaning to our lives and actions on behalf of the more-than-human world.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

tags: ecology, environment, environmental-conservation, environmentalism, hope, optimism

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#173

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#174

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#175

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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#176

“I want to be the victim of his errors.”
― Marquis de Sade

tags: sensuality, sexuality

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#177

“The flesh is but
a sack of goo,
a feast for worms
to delve into.

Remember, mortal,
as you strive,
that you, ambitious goo,
must also die.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

tags: ambitious, death, die, feast, flesh, mortal, remember, strive

3 likes

#178

“The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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#179

“if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a woman who’s wholly alone occasionally talks to a pot plant, is she certifiable?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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#180

“How I go to the wood

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.

I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
praying, as you no doubt have yours.

Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit
on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
unhearable sound of the roses singing.

If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much.”
― Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

tags: nature, poetry

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