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,…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
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.
“What Dreams May Come”
These passages, with their rich imagery and their unerring rhythmic ebb and flow, are among the most moving and complex speeches in our literature. But it is the soliloquy in the third act, “To be…
Today’s One-Liner (#63)
I believe in God—Bach’s God. –Glenn Gould, in Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Look Within
In a sense, everything Proust wrote was a rehearsal for the Search, but the important point—made clear by his many anguished doubts about whether or not he was a novelist—is that until he found the…
Today’s One-Liner (#62)
It is not things that disturb people but their judgments about things. –Epictetus, in A.A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life
Recent Reading
The job of an intellectual is to listen to the history that is being made all around you and to respond in new ways by re-assessing your previous beliefs. This is what the founding generation…
Today’s One-Liner (#61)
It is perhaps even more useful to contemplate our stupidity than our sin. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Today’s One-Liner (#60)
Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. –Staretz Zosima, “Of Prayer, Love, and the Touching of Other Worlds,” in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Easter morning 2012, Chouteau AvenuePhoto by Andrew Wimmer