August 2011
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“INTERVIEWER
You’ve treated your early years fictionally and have...”
– “John Updike, The Art of Fiction No. 43,” the Paris Review
“The poet’s mission is not to save the world, but to save some human experiences...”
– Charles Simic, in the introduction to Milan Djordjevic’s selected poems, Oranges and Snow (which Simic also translated).
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Born today in 1915: Ingrid Bergman
“The sulfurous afternoon went black unnaturally early, as if what was to come...”
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“Ocean 1212-W,” Sylvia Plath, 1962
From The Book Bench at the New Yorker : “Six Shorts to Read During a Hurricane” (Aug. 26th, 2011)
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“The show is diabolical—and I think I mean that literally, insofar as I am...”
– “Valley of the Trolls: It’s the rare star who can withstand the predatory cameras of TMZ on TV.” - James Parker, The Atlantic (Sept. 2011)
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“A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” Coco Chanel.”
– Happy Birthday Coco Chanel.
“Today’s metal has no power ballads, no more Nazareth doing ‘love...”
– Carl Wilson, Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. 2007
“No englishman would dream of dying in someone else’s house.”
– Dame Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
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“Unlike a child, who pleases in spite of herself, Butterscotch wanted to know...”
– “Dog Story,” Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker. August 8th, 2011
“I think you’re constipated. In your fucking soul.”
-Penelope, The...”
