“There’s a difference between art and self-expression. All art is self-expression. All self-expression is not art.” -Matthew McConaughey
Be good to each other,
Nathan
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“There’s a difference between art and self-expression. All art is self-expression. All self-expression is not art.” -Matthew McConaughey
Be good to each other,
Nathan
“I go into the movie, I watch it, and I ask myself what happened to me.” -Pauline Kael
“A man watches a movie, and the critic must acknowledge that he is a man.” -Robert Warshow
“When I think of him and his typewriter, I remember a story McHugh told me once about an old Irishman who bought new shoes. He wore them down to the pub and his friends asked him what he was sporting on his feet. “A fine new pair,” he said. “These will see me out.”” -Roger Ebert
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Nathan
“And since I’ve always lived in cities where a lot of the people are desperate refugees from small towns determined never to go back except funerals.” -Eve Babitz
“I believe adultery is an art form.” -Eve Babitz
“Only I wasn’t shocked merely because he was a Greek god whom you weren’t supposed to see naked, I was struck because he looked like a Greek god. And not just a simple classical perfection which leaves the viewer detached from the marvels of the human body but makes one yearn for the real life of Clark Gable’s wink.” -Eve Babitz
“Fuck oblivion.” -Ernest Hemingway
“He sat in the deep comfortable chair and drank his drink and learned you cannot read The New Yorker when people that you love have just died.” -Ernest Hemingway
“A river can be treacherous and cruel and kind and friendly. A stream can be completely friendly and you can trust it all your life if you do not abuse it. But the ocean always has to lie to you before she does it.” -Ernest Hemingway
“Going away can be final. Walking out the door can be final. Any form of real betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.” -Ernest Hemingway
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Nathan
“The country as a whole had become so hostile to have-nots that large numbers of have-nots themselves now voted against their own economic interests.” -Jonathan Franzen
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Nathan
“I had yet to learn that all human relationships end in pain.” -C.S. Lewis
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” -C.S. Lewis
“If God’s goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for in the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine.” -C.S. Lewis
“And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen.” -C.S. Lewis
“I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.” -C.S. Lewis
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Nathan
“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.” -Old Saying
“It is a tragedy, is it not? The little faces on a milk-carton - although I can’t remember the last time I saw a kid on a milk-carton - and on the walls of freeway rest areas. Have you seen me? they ask. A deeply existential question at the best of times. Have you seen me? -Neil Gaiman
“Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.” -Neil Gaiman
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Nathan
“When a significant segment of the politically engaged population stands firmly opposed to science, reason, and critical thinking, intelligent debate and policy making become impossible.” -David Niose
“Neither Maria nor I had majored in philosophy, but in real life every college student soon or later becomes a late-night philosopher.” -David Niose
“If by any possibility the existence of power superior to, and independent of, nature should be demonstrated, there will be enough time to kneel. Until then let us stand erect.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
“All of this points to a future that appreciates secularity as a valid worldview and sees the divisive, revelation-based religions of the world for what they are: the efforts of uninformed ancient men to understand a frightening world.” -David Niose
“A bright American future is not possible with fundamentalist thinkers in charge, with men and women who look for biblical explanations for all worldly phenomena, who feel that all human events are a mere prelude to the Second Coming of Jesus, who don’t just love their country but feel it plays a mysterious role in biblical prophecy, who reject categorically the notion that humans can solve human problems, and who believe with every fiber of their being that men, women, and children are inherently wretched and can be saved only by their omnipotent and omniscient creator.” David Niose
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Nathan
“Why, Katie wondered, eyeing them at the altar, is false love so proud, and true love so fearful? -Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon
“The American desert is a pram of horror and wonder, the world’s last unfiltered portal to the beyond, a place where heaven and hell both touch the earth.” -Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon
“One day, if you live long enough, you’ll find that more people have forgotten you than still remember you. Maybe a gas station. Maybe getting coffee. Even those who know you will just know old pictures. You’ll be given over to the big forgetting. And free.” -Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon
“He ran like running was the last language left, eyes set on the sea.” -Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon
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Nathan
“I will flatly say that the bulk of this country’s white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation. They have been white, if I may put it, too long…” -James Baldwin
“The mythology - really, the lie - that white Christians tell ourselves, on the few occasions we face our history, is that Christianity has been a force of unambiguous good in the world. No matter what evil Christians commit or what violence Christian institutions justify, an idealized conception of Christianity remains unscathed. This conviction is so deep that evidence to the contrary is simply dismissed.” -Robert P. Jones
“Reflecting back across his life, Douglass concluded solemnly: “Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.” -Robert P. Jones
“If you were recruiting for a white supremacist cause on a Sunday morning, you’d likely have more success hanging out in the parking lot of an average white Christian church - evangelical Protestant, mainline Protestant, or Catholic - than approaching whites sitting out services at the local coffee shop.” -Robert P. Jones
Be good to each other,
Nathan
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