Archive For May 13, 2022
“Quite frankly, I didn’t know what the hell I wanted to be,” Moore said of his college life. “I was pretty sure I didn’t want to starve. That had no particular appeal to me at all. I had no ambition to be a bohemian.” He seemed like a great artist to me. Getting to Nike…
Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, “Hey, we got a crazy man in the community,” and they’ll begin talking to you. – Ray Bradbury Plump Pimpled Public Defender swears just like the last time there’s…
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Grandmother must have been about forty-six when I first met her. I was already six weeks old myself and I couldn’t get together with her any sooner. Mom’s parents lived four hundred miles away, before…
The antipathy toward [Irish Catholics] rested not only on their reputation for violence and their religious difference from the bulk of the city’s natives, but also upon their competition for jobs at the lowest occupational levels, their menial status, their foreign aspect and clannishness, and their notorious intemperance. – Dennis Clark Just because our brains…
You’ve got to know how to compete and win, life goes too god-damned fast…. No one ever said life was fair. – Joan Crawford You say a six-year-old ran a marathon. Really? Casual observation of contemporary America suggests there are grownups who have yet to total 26.2 miles of running in their entire lifetimes. I…
I like art as thought better than art as work. I’ve always maintained this. It’s important to me that I don’t get my hands dirty. It’s not because I’m instinctively lazy. It’s a declaration: art is thought. – Dan Flavin Pain is inescapable, and must be met with suffering. Suffering is raw and must be…
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a…
The road must eventually lead to the whole world. – Jack Kerouac Practically blissed out. Barker Ajax driving back home from a brief errand or two. You have to know Barker to understand. He’s 75 and the sun is bright and the sky blue and the music is playing.I have been to the drugs store, he thinks. Government selling hash brownies…
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. – Nelson Mandala Became a runner over a…