- tUnE-yArDs “Bizness”

6:37 pm  •  27 June 2011

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

— Ray Bradbury (via therealchadhall)

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5:52 pm  •  27 June 2011  •  63 notes

“On the tour bus, people will be passing around the iPod, and there’s a feeling of ‘Oh, man, no one thought he’d put this on’ or ‘What is this again!?’ That sensation is also important for a tight summer mix.”

— Gregg Gillis

6:38 pm  •  22 June 2011

“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching. Teaching is not reducible to maieutics; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. In its non-violent transitivity the very epiphany of the face is produced.”

- Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity 

6:23 pm  •  22 June 2011

“Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelihood one’s own character would not have stood firm.”

— Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam

6:16 pm  •  22 June 2011

“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”

— Ann Landers

6:12 pm  •  22 June 2011

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11:53 pm  •  21 June 2011

I’ve been teaching gender studies courses for nearly two decades, and I developed the first “Men and Masculinity” class ever taught at my college. Through my teaching and other work, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about sexual harassment and other forms of public and private violence against women. And the longer I do this work, the more I’m convinced that one of the roots of the problem – particularly in North America – is “homosociality.”

- Hugo B. Schwyzer

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10:52 pm  •  21 June 2011

6:07 pm  •  21 June 2011

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5:53 pm  •  21 June 2011  •  777 notes