May 2013
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“You know that all I desire and demand of life is to feel an urge to work!”
—- Gustav Mahler
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Fashion still doesn't give a damn about…
…the deaths of garment workers
To the Guardian article by Lucy Siegle to which the image above points, I add from what I’ve seen:
Bargaining is tough when buyers from transnationals fly down to set hourly rates with manufacturers. Decisions to move away to lower-cost sellers are taken in an instant and aggressive sellers desperate to cover overhead do everything they can (but...
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April 2013
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Why I like Churumuri
Because it gives a sense of the times in right-size shots of photo and text. Go there!
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This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
– Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via stackofbooks)
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means... →
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem.
—-Henry Miller in The Wisdom of the Heart
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anthophilae:
“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.”
—Harun Yahya
March 2013
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I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow...
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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cliqmo:
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
—Franz Kafka
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
– Henri Frederic Amiel (via proseprunings)
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The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering,...
– Susan Sontag (via proseprunings)
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Honouring the Devil
So we honour even the Devil with a capitalisation. There’s wisdom in that, I guess. I’m thinking.— Shashikiran Mullur (@shashikiran) March 20, 2013
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Character is seen most clearly in choice under pressure.
– Scarlett Thomas, Monkeys with Typewriters
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When you read, don’t let the poet write down to you; read up to him. Reach for...
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London: William Blake →
I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls
But...
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staying present on Tarka Rail →
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see London a bit, perhaps… — Shashikiran Mullur →
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February 2013
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