May 2012
40 posts
“You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that...”
– Francis Ford Coppola
“Sex is one of the very few sure-fire paths to feeling happy and alive, if only...”
– Ian Mathias
“If life were a race, it’d be the most unfair contest in all of sports. Rules...”
– Ian Mathias
“Brevity is the soul of wit,” Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet. He gave those words to...”
– Ian Mathias
“Images enter us like liquid light, addictive and mysterious. The process can be...”
– Mark Alice Durant
Two Expressions to Fiercely Avoid
At the top of the heap of truly terrible english platitudes: “it is what it is.” Christ, I don’t even like writing it. I must admit that I used it for years, until a friend of mine called me out for tossing around such an empty expression, and he was right. Think about it literally… what a ridiculous thing to say.
Example: An old pal gets laid off and is barely getting by on unemployment. “Hey...
“Young person, you’ll find in your life that sometimes your great ambitions will...”
– Henry Rollins
WHAT MONEY CAN BUY ... A bed but not sleep. A...
“… I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you...”
– Pablo Neruda
April 2012
32 posts
“It is a risk to love. What if it doesn’t work out? Ah, but what if it does?” - Peter McWilliams