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Fri 30 Nov 2018

Pleasure

Posted by PJ under pleasure, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It is the paradox of life, that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.”

—Hugh Black, Culture and Restraint

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Thu 29 Nov 2018

The law

Posted by PJ under experience, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.”

—Ben Okri, Astonishing the Gods

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Wed 28 Nov 2018

Old

Posted by PJ under aging, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”

—Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies

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Tue 27 Nov 2018

Exile

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the path
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Random quote of the day:

“Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.”

—Colin Wilson, The Outsider

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Mon 26 Nov 2018

Commitment

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, resistance, truth, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The nobility of our craft will always be rooted in two commitments, difficult to maintain: refusal to lie about what one knows, and resistance to oppression.”

—Albert Camus, Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech, December 1957

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Wed 21 Nov 2018

Yourself

Posted by PJ under process, quote of the day, teachers, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

—Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) on writing, New York Times, May 21, 1986

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Tue 20 Nov 2018

Ephemera

Posted by PJ under ephemera, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“The past is best left to itself. I find that when it touches the present, it vanishes like a forgotten dream.”

—The Countess de Longvic, in Tahir Shah’s The Caliph’s House

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Mon 19 Nov 2018

Time

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reason, right and wrong, time
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Random quote of the day:

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

—Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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Sun 18 Nov 2018

My hometown

Posted by PJ under venice
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Here’s a fascinating short documentary on my hometown, Venice, California. I grew up in the Oakwood section, the slum, before it became gentrified and precious. It was a great multicultural way to grow up and I’m immensely grateful for it. I miss it.

If you watch it, the tracking shot from A Touch of Evil was filmed about two blocks north of where my roommates and I lived in the 80s. And there’s a still shot of a ghetto child crouching near some railroad tracks in the Oakwood. I grew up about 3 blocks north of there.

I never felt “danger” until I left there.

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Fri 16 Nov 2018

Age

Posted by PJ under aging, art, quote of the day, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“Youth has no age.”

—Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: What He Said by Narim Bender

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