May 2009
23 posts
this afternoon, a chance encounter
Guy: Hello, miss, would you like a tour of Central Park? Me: No, that’s fine. Thanks. Guy: Where are you from? Me: Venezuela. Guy: Oh, it’s just that you look like this girl I know from Morocco. Me: Oh. Guy: Yes, that’s why I asked. Me: Are you from Morocco? Guy: Yes. Me: Oh, cool. Guy: I haven’t seen her in six or seven years. I didn’t think you were her, but you...
“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction.”
-Virginia Woolf
revolution
“But they say -excuse me, my friend- that Tomlinson has the brains, and your brother the voice, but that this man has the heart. He is the one the Government is afraid of, because he himself is not afraid. He seeks nothing for himself.”
-Alan Paton
reflections on humanity
“At that time he had still been counting on her love and had sought to tempt her chiefly by comfort and luxury, knowing how easily habits of luxury are acquired and how difficult they are to give up after, little by little, they have become necessity.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky