The poet, the artist, the sleuth – whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely “well-adjusted”, he cannot go along with currents and
Quotes
E. E. Cummings
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everyone else means to
more anti Rand
The public consists of seperate individuals walking around with seperate fixed points of view. The new technology demands that we abandon the luxury of
tribalism returns
We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling, the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us.
Diablo Cody
I own my own failure. I hate it on american Idol when they do a horrible performance and they go, “Well, I had fun.”
bird vs. magic
white vs black, LA vs indiana, loud vs quiet, etc. competed against each other both in college adn the pros
russian poet Joseph Brodsky
His poetry had just begun to receive some critical attention when the Soviet authorities intervened and charged him with “having a worldview damaging to
JK Rowling on poverty
I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor,
media
Google’s efforts to create Internet products64f157e7B002N83GWQ Your highlight at location 1715 that will be used by consumers beyond search (such as e-mail, instant messaging,
media
Of course, moguls have a tendency to reject implicitly or explicitly all easily measurable metrics of success and tend to focus instead on various