I Cannot - The Paris Review
This is an essential aspect of a work of art: you can’t empty it of its contents and patly move on. It seems to scorn a world where knowing a few bullet points about a subject is counted the least bit impressive.
Patrick Bringley • All the Beauty in the World
rien. It is also a characteristic of such writers to avoid, if it is possible, expressing themselves definitely, so that they may be always able in case of need to get out of a difficulty; this is why they always choose the more abstract expressions: while people of intellect choose the more concrete; because the latter bring the matter closer to v
... See moreArthur Schopenhauer • Works of Arthur Schopenhauer
If there has to be one, take it as this book’s punchline—intellect requires artifice, and therefore labor.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
His circumlocutions display the necessity of distance from the body’s dark needs, impoverishing architectural theory and architecture itself, in Penner’s view.
Laura Noren • Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis Book 1)
in writing, I feel a strange euphoria… there are so many ways to say nothing.
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
Many concepts can be explained concisely, in simple language, and we should all strive for clarity. But the aphorism is a mistake, for a number of thoughts approximate the carpenter’s craft, and to meaningfully reveal them requires time and attention. Sometimes these cannot simply be told to another at all, they must be grown. For a topical example... See more