There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different. -Piper Payne Image by Juraj Varga from … Continue reading Quote for Today: Piper Payne
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Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ring that determine those of the characters and because it is the ring that establishes the relationships between them. Around the magic object there forms a kind of force field that is in fact the territory of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
Quote for Today: Leah Hager Cohen
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its price tag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Leah Hager Cohen
Giving the Beast a Voice: Man and Beast, a Film by Daniel Ariola
What can animals teach us about ourselves and the world around us? Perhaps humans are not as superior as we would like to be. Beasts do not speak our language, nor do they build civilizations we recognize, so we usually consider them lesser beings. Most people are ignorant of the richness of animal life and … Continue reading Giving the Beast a Voice: Man and Beast, a Film by Daniel Ariola
Quote for Today: Sena Jeter Naslund
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. ― Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer Public Domain … Continue reading Quote for Today: Sena Jeter Naslund
Quote for Today: Karen Healey
"It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight," He pointed at himself. "Patupaiarehe look like monsters in some stories, but they're beautiful in a lot. I guess people believed more in the beautiful version. And the ideal of beauty changes. If I'd been born … Continue reading Quote for Today: Karen Healey
Quote for Today: Alexander Chee
When I am gripped with despair, when I think I might stop, I speak to my dead. Tell them a story. What am I doing with this life? They hold me accountable. I let them make me bolder or more modest or louder or more moving, but I ask them to listen, and then write. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Alexander Chee
