Quote for Today: Michael Chabon
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust …
Quote for Today: Lionel Richie
I did decide to write about what I experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top. You know what …
Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, …
Quote for Today: Stephen Carpenter
People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things – where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance – but no one ever …
Quote for Today: S.J. Watson
We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. …
Quote for Today: Friedrich Nietzsche
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ―Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. …
Life Through the Lens: Pioneers of Documentary Photography
A picture may be worth a thousand words. Does this mean that images are better at telling the truth? The early part of the Twentieth Century saw the rise of …
Quote for Today: Julian Barnes
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to …
Quote for Today: Richard Wright
One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one’s path; one then looks up suddenly for those familiar landmarks of orientation, and, seeing none, one feels lost. Panic drapes …