May 2013
2 posts
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“L’insana tempestività uccide la salvifica inattualità.”
– Nicola Lagioia - Bellas Mariposas : minima&moralia
April 2013
1 post
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“Naturalizzare i fatti sociali non è quasi mai una buona idea”
– Walter Siti
March 2013
6 posts
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A Pleasant Shade of Gray - Part IX (1997)
stayed up late last night
lying here in bed
looking for words
to say the things i left unsaid
wind at my window
whispers to me instead
and i lie alone
writing letters in my head
where you are, i am
through nights that never end
where you are, i am
in words i’ll never send
walked alone last night
cold streets of could be anywhere
looking for words
to share the thoughts i...
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“When Max said, “Mom, I’m going to miss you so much,” she said: “Miss me? Well,...”
– Nora Ephron’s Final Act
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“Mat Osman: Very early on there was a Britpop club on Oxford Street, and the...”
– Cheating The “Living Death”: Suede Interviewed
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February 2013
7 posts
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“I didn’t enjoy things I couldn’t envision myself being the best at.”
– Frank Ocean, summing up my entire childhood and adolescent life
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“The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, “Oh, you...”
– Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy and Fame — Vulture
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“I’m pre-feminist, that is, I came of age before any of that happened. So my...”
– The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Margaret Atwood - The Rumpus.net
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January 2013
1 post
November 2012
7 posts
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“From Borges to Calvino, drawing heavily on the tropes and conventions of science...”
– Michael Chabon, Maps and Legends, San Francisco 2008
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“I remember being 16, and I remember what I liked to read. I didn’t want books...”
– Why I Love YA: In Defense of Young Adult Literature
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“After school I go to the nearby Burger King and write a suicide note. It ends up...”
– Lana Wachowski’s HRC Visibility Award Acceptance Speech (Transcript) - Hollywood Reporter
October 2012
6 posts
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“We knew we were good. At our best, we thought we could be a match for any band...”
– Led Zeppelin: ‘There was a swagger’ | Music | The Guardian
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“Le sottoculture o i gruppi sociali che vogliono normalizzarsi devono capire che,...”
– Freddy Nietzsche - Il problema dello strascico
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September 2012
1 post
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August 2012
9 posts
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“We are intrigued by the image and the story of the virile, muscular überman,...”
– Dale Cooper: Hulking Macho Fantasy
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“Come fai a evitare gli eccessi di retorica, come fai a mantenere il controllo...”
– Martina Testa intervista Zadie Smith
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“I’m learning that to function effectively and happily in an increasingly...”
– Exploiting the Neuroscience of Internet Addiction - Bill Davidow - The Atlantic
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“2319. Mia prima impressione di Roma – 18 nov. 1871. Alba – La locomotiva fra le...”
– Carlo Dossi, Note azzurre, Milano, 2010
(via Francesco Pacifico)
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“Camille Paglia has Lady Gaga ALL WRONG! The feminist organisation Object are...”
– Caitlin Moran, How To Be a Woman, London, 2011
“Suri had told Sam the legend of a Persian king. The king asks a group of wise...”
– Sam Frears: A Life Less Ordinary - Extract | The Observer
July 2012
7 posts
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“In Koenig’s world of twentiesdom, and on Dunham’s lightly parodic...”
– The Shrinking Boundaries of Being a (Certain Kind of) Twentysomething
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“Anyone remember a fourth-century-BC Greek named Herostratus? He’s the guy...”
– Disrupting the Infamy Game: How to Change the Coverage of Mass Shootings - J.J. Gould - The Atlantic
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““You really want to buy this place?”
“I want to live forever, but I’ll settle...”
– Adam Wilson, Flatscreen, New York 2012
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June 2012
9 posts
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“BÉHAR: How do you score a sex scene, Mr. Badalamenti?
BADALAMENTI: With great...”
– Cinema Papers, no. 89, August 1992
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