[…] i det daglige betød det ikke så meget for mig, om stedet var højre- eller venstreorienteret eller hyklerisk på den gode eller den dårlige måde.
– Murakami: Norwegian Wood (om kollegium i Tokyo)
[…] i det daglige betød det ikke så meget for mig, om stedet var højre- eller venstreorienteret eller hyklerisk på den gode eller den dårlige måde.
– Murakami: Norwegian Wood (om kollegium i Tokyo)
Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes a dead geranium.
– T. S. Eliot
When there were cicadas earlier in the summer it was good. Their singing was like blood rushing in her ears. It was one of those outside inside things.
– Edward St. Aubyn: Never Mind
Like many flatterers, he was not aware that he irritated the people he flattered.
Edward St Aubyn: Never Mind
I coughed, saw the doctor,
Thought everything was set
Turns out the Lord does not want me,
And the devil is not ready – yet.
jeg fyrer af sted i den ligeste linie, men livet er ikke en retning
selvom mange gerne vil anskue det geometrisk
i den store forsimplings navn
Fra Fredspiben, et digt af Theis Ørntoft.
Mere om Theis Ørntoft i interviewet Theis Ørntoft: ’Verden er skizofren’ fra Information 2009.
Tanker klare, men korte
Aldrig nok til en bog
Måske blot haiku
She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.
– The Living Room, Graham Greene
The more complex a society becomes, the more fully the law must take into account the diversity of the people who live in it… It is a matter in which the whole society is involved.
– Margaret Mead (via Brainpickings)
Stay with me and help me to clothe my bitter thoughts in lovelier colours.
– Mathilda, Mary Shelley