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Posted in Quote Included, Snapshot on Mar 2nd, 2010
The boy felt jealous of the freedom of the wind, and saw that he could have the same freedom. There was nothing to hold him back except himself.
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho, pg 30
Posted in Quote Included, Snapshot on Feb 22nd, 2010
Please blow your smoke elsewhere. My respiratory system, unfortunately, is below par. I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole, pg 324
Posted in Quote Included, Snapshot on Feb 22nd, 2010
If it weren’t for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss, pg 57
Posted in Hang it on the Wall, Quote Included on Feb 17th, 2010
Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the gray with a different-textured gray - one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of grays that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could [...]
Posted in Quote Included on Feb 16th, 2010
“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. You know what I mean?” “Yes, of course.” “But now I think it’s the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from the wonderful and terrible world.”
Everything is Illuminated [...]
Posted in Quote Included, Snapshot on Jan 6th, 2010
He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed to him.
Dubliners “A Little Cloud” - [...]
Posted in Quote Included, Snapshot on Dec 20th, 2009
Actually, it was not so much the speed that was impressive as the pure animal confidence, the total absorption in the moment. Such a mix of ease and concentration, such a being-in-the-present, would be the envy of the highest yogies.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel, pg. 182
Posted in Photos of the Week, Quote Included on Dec 10th, 2009
Beer, or course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut, pg 277
Posted in None of the Above, Quote Included on Dec 6th, 2009
It is on journeys like this - where one is so horribly misunderstood - that you find yourself longing for home, that place where you are entirely understood, for better or for worse.
On Beauty - Zadie Smith, pg 307
Posted in Newspaper, Quote Included on Nov 24th, 2009
It is very imprudent, it is tragic - but, ah, it is so beautiful!
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle, pg 18
Photo of Hamper’s Santa Claus Parade in the Beaches taken for Toronto Community News.