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Category: Quotations
July 18, 2018
Do you live near or along the Hudson River in New York state, and/or value the river–and rivers in general–as valuable resources that should be protected?
Then read this article: https://www.riverkeeper.org/blogs/ecology/storm-surge-barriers-for-ny-harbor-threaten-life-of-the-hudson-river/.
The Hudson River and its ecosystem are far older and more essential than the “critical infrastructure” these measures would be trying (and failing) to protect.
There is info towards the end of the article about ways to get involved. Please read, get involved, and share this information with people you know.
March 4, 2018
SONG
If I
could count the silence
I could sleep, sleep.
But it
is one, one. No head even
to gnaw. Spinning.
If I
could halt the glazed
spinning, surface of glass,
my mind
could shove in its fingers
and break apart
the smooth
singleness of the night—
until sleep dropped as rain
upon me.
— William Carlos Williams (The Pink Church)
January 15, 2018
Democracy Now! exclusive
Watch today’s Democracy Now show – MLK speech in London, 1964: https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/15/newly_discovered_1964_mlk_speech_on.
October 26, 2017
“Millicent Barnes, age twenty-five, young woman waiting for a bus on a rainy November night. Not a very imaginative type is Miss Barnes, not given to undue anxiety or fears, or for that matter even the most temporal flights of fancy. Like most young career women, she has a generic classification as a, quote, girl with a head on her shoulders, end of quote. All of which is mentioned now because in just a moment the head on Miss Barnes’s shoulders will be put to a test. Circumstances will assault her sense of reality and a chain of nightmares will put her sanity on a block. Millicent Barnes, who in one minute will wonder if she’s going mad.”
July 11, 2014
Halley: I wanted to give you this letter back.
Cliff: (Sighs.) It’s my one love letter.
Halley: It’s beautiful. I’m just — the wrong person.
Cliff: It’s probably just as well… I plagiarized most of it from James Joyce. You probably wondered, why all the references to Dublin.
(Crimes and Misdemeanors, Woody Allen, 1989)
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