August 2010
The Lost Language of Italian Parasols & Those Who... →
“The nicest thing I know about him is what he once said to my wife, Marigold:...”
– daily mail article
“But his most notorious line was his attempt to invoke the modern aristocrat’s...”
– article on cody franchetti
“You can just do whatever you would normally do if I wasn’t here, I said.
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– “Making Love in 2003”, Miranda July
“79. During this time, Warhol and a group of his friends bought 2000 bottles of...”
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pen drawings by joan salo →
“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for,...”
– Anais Nin (youmightfindyourself, tobia, exsouvenir) (via futurisms)
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what i would like (hypothetically):
to be a florist who takes a stand against selling red roses—i hate red roses. when i imagine doing this, i think of a classmate’s mother, an ob-gyn, who proudly told us all she immediately cut off service to patients who wanted an abortion, without giving them any advice on the situation. at the time (i was…16?), i thought, but shouldn’t you, as their doctor, not involve your...
“Dying used to be accompanied by a prescribed set of customs. Guides to ars...”
– http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all 