beautifully said
turns of phrase worth remembering, sentences that make you feel, or think, or laugh, or cry
beautifully said
surrounded by the detritus of dashed hopes
“Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship”
David Foster Wallace, This is Water
The sublime has given way to the garish, the sacred to the profane.
Opinion | Where Did All the Classy Americans Go? — The Wall Street Journal
From WSJ Where Did All the Classy Americans Go? A beautiful line in an otherwise lacking op-ed
“A commitment to self-improvement”
Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
Saudade is a Portuguese word that can be roughly defined as a feeling of melancholy, nostalgia or yearning for something that is beloved but not present. There's no perfect translation, but one of the closest English expressions of the word I've ever seen is Billie Eilish's Tiny Desk performance.
You'd think the Los Angeles-born singer invented the... See more
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Billie Eilish: Tiny Desk Concert
“Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts?... Comfort has come to be its own corruption.” — Lorraine Hansberry, Black playwright and writer
Cultural Worker, Not A “Creative”
Each social media network creates a particular kind of teenage star: Those blessed with early-onset hotness are drawn to YouTube
A great line, made me chuckle.
All of us face the assault of time, but few must reckon with mortality before the eyes of the world.