“The landscapes were in my arms as I did it…I didn’t realize all that I was doing. I was trying to get at something — I didn’t know what until it was manifest.”
—Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011
December 2011
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One teacher's approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
“In the end and at the end, Hitchens made me feel braver about most things, and especially non-existence, than any sermon ever could.”
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—John Hodgman
via: areasofmyexpertise
I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone →
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I am much too small in this world, yet not small
enough
to be to you just object and thing, dark and smart.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
“I think that the kind of pleasure I would consider as the real pleasure would be so deep, so intense, so overwhelming that I couldn’t survive it. I would die.”
—Michel Foucault, from a 1983 interview collected in Politics, Philosophy, Culture (via proustitute)
“The more students borrow, the more they have to pay back—and, thus, the poorer they are. It follows that we’re impoverishing our students at the same time that we’re educating them.”
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—Leonard Cassuto on why Graduate Student Debt Matters
