Manhattan, 1992
Photo by Mev
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Today’s One-Liner (#69)
“People ignore reality in favor of their bright ideas.” –Hannah Arendt to Karl Jaspers, 1965, quoted in Susie Linfield, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
Share the Wealth with Andrew Ivers: Reconsidering Joan Didion and the New Journalism
Through recent engaging conversation with Andrew Ivers at the Courtesy Diner, I became re-interested in Joan Didion, whose book The Year of Magical Thinking I read when it came out. Andrew has agreed to share…
Today’s One-Liner (#68)
Lovers of God do not belong to any caste. –Sri Ramakrishna, in M., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Today’s One-Liner (#67)
Be influenced by as many great artists as you can, but have the decency either to acknowledge the debt outright, or to try to conceal it. –Ezra Pound, Make It New
Soul-Power
A healthy ego is transformed into a soul only via the burden of another who must impinge on the ego, causing the ego to shrink, as it were. –Ira F. Stone, A Responsible Life: The…
Today’s One-Liner (#66)
When I know I can change things, I become as active as a cyclone. –Golda Meir, in Oriana Fallaci, Interviews with History and Conversations with Power
Today’s One-Liner (#65)
I want to defend my culture, not theirs, and I inform you that I like Dante Alighieri and Shakespeare and Goethe and Verlaine and Walt Whitman and Leopardi much more than Omar Khayyam. –Oriana Fallaci,…
Today’s One-Liner (#64)
Dullness was not an inevitable consequence of age, but of education. –Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
While Sitting at Starbucks
So what If I sing your praises(even off-key)? I know your wordsHave the powerTo raise the dead. Recall this when you feel Your life is fated To be locked in a lab.