February 2011
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Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin’
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L’esprit de l’escalier, usually translated as “staircase wit”, is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult or any witty remark that comes to mind too late to be useful, after one has left the scene of the encounter. The phenomenon is usually accompanied by a feeling of regret at not having thought of the...
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Franz Kafka is dead.
He died in a tree from which he wouldn’t come down. “Come down!” they cried to him. “Come down! Come down!” Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. “I can’t,” he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. “Why?” they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky....
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“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via aclockworkorange)
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In the 1960s, a student at Harvard Law School addressed parents and alumni with these words:
“The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes! danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without law...
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“They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve...”
– Jack Kerouac (via nickdrake)
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“While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin...”
– Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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