Whiskey cracking on ice
illustration 2016 by jpbohannon
“The light music of whiskey falling into a glass—an agreeable interlude.”
James Joyce (1882-1941)
quotes
Quote # 52: DFW defining “Lynchian”
“David Lynch” illustration 2016 by jpbohannon
“A good 65% of the people in metropolitan bus terminals between the hours of midnight and 6:00 A.M. tend to qualify as [David] Lynchian figures–flamboyantly unattractive, enfeebled, grotesque, freighted with a woe out of all proportion to evident circumstances.”
David Foster Wallace defining “Lynchian”as quoted in
David Lynch: The Man from Another Place by David Lim
Quote #51: “Gratitude is not only the greatest…” Cicero
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” Cicero
Quote #49: “Be a good steward…” Jane Kenyon
White Daffodils
illustration 2015 by jpbohannon
“Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.”
Jane Kenyon, from A Hundred White Daffodils
Quote 48: “Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.” Jorge Luis Borges
“Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.”
(I always imagined that paradise would be some sort of library.)
Jorge Luis Borges
Quote 47: “Poetry is above all…” Adrienne Rich
“Concentration”
illustration 2015 by jpbohannon
“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship with everything in the universe.”
Adrienne Rich
Quote 45: “The bowler hat was a motif in the musical composition … .”
Sabina’s Bowler
illustration 2015 by jpbohannon
The bowler hat was a motif in the musical composition that was Sabina’s life. It returned again and again, each time with a different meaning, and all the meanings flowed through the bowler hat like water through a riverbed. … each time the same object would give rise to a new meaning, though all former meanings would resonate (like an echo, like a parade of echoes) together with the new one.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Quote #44: “When I was a child I truly loved… “
“Grendel”
illustration 2015 by jpbohannon
“When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.”
— John Gardner, Grendel
Series: The Deadly Sins–Gluttony
“Consumerism is the new Gluttony”
photo-collage 2015 by jpbohannon
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” ― Socrates
“The things you own end up owning you.” — Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Series: The Deadly Sins–Sloth
Gustave Doré
Slothful Penitents (Abbot of St. Zeno)
“In the world sloth … is the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, loves nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing and remains alive only because there is nothing it would die for. We have known it far too well for many years.”
Dorothy Sayers, “The Other Six Deadly Sins”
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