January 22, 2012
"All I ever wanted was a good job, some bus fare and a rocket and a bomb."

— Michael Knott, quoted by JM Blaine

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January 2, 2012
"Masturbate frequently. You’ll probably do that anyway, but you may as well make it a rule."

— Anthony Neilson

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December 28, 2011
"Every slum needs a laureate or it’s just slum."

— notes

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December 25, 2011
"What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that’s not true at all. The real world is a much darker place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things."

— Haruki Murakami, quoted in The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall 

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December 22, 2011
"A character is compelling when he’s becoming a junkie or trying to stop being a junkie—but an active junkie is never compelling, because he’s not struggling with anything."

— Nancy Franklin

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December 17, 2011
"Look at it this way: humans have existed on this planet for roughly half a million years. During that entire time, evolution has ruthlessly weeded out the “unfit,” generation after generation. This is not some abstract hyperbole, this is fact. Yet YOU are somehow here today. That means that EVERY SINGLE ONE of your ancestors was able to get laid at least once, going back to the dawn of the species."

— Jeffy Hot Seat

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December 15, 2011
"Mythology does not hold as its greatest hero the merely virtuous man. Virtue is but the pedagogical prelude to the culminating insight, which goes beyond all pairs of opposites. Virtue quells the self-centered ego and makes the transpersonal centeredness posible; but when that has been achieved, what then of the pain or pleasure, vice or virtue, either of our own ego or of any other? Through all, the transcendent force is then perceived which lives in all, in all is wonderful, and is worthy, in all, of our profound obeisance."

— Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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December 10, 2011
"My being a poet probably has something to do with my preferring questions to answers, ambiguity to resolution, and with my being bored to tears by most of the mainstream supposedly realistic novels that run bland 21st-century sentences through 19th-century structures in order to produce what’s essentially very inefficient television."

— Ben Lerner

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December 10, 2011
"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."

— Matthew 12:33-34

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December 7, 2011
"Whereas the truths of science are communicable, being demonstrable hypotheses rationally founded on observable facts, ritual, mythology, and metaphysics are but guides to the brink of a transcendent illumination, the final step to which must be taken by each in his own silent experience. Hence one of the Sanskrit terms for sage is muni, ‘the silent one.’ Sakyamuni (one of the titles of Gautama Buddha) means ‘the silent one or sage of the Sakya clan.’ Though he is the founder of a widely taught world religion, the ultimate core of his doctrine remains concealed, necessarily, in silence."

— Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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December 7, 2011
"The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man."

— Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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December 7, 2011
"The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers, too, are saved—by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums. It is only those who know neither an inner call nor an outer doctrine whose plight is truly desperate; that is to say, most of us today."

— Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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December 4, 2011
"You can spend your whole life
doing no more than preparing for life and thinking."

— Terrance Hayes

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December 4, 2011
"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them."

— Matthew 6:26

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December 4, 2011
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

— Matthew 6:21

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