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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Sometimes when I project forward to a hundred years from now I imagine an art historian trying to talk about our times and I think that they will look back more at changes in design than at developments in art.”
— Andrea Zittel, Bomb - Andrea Zittel
Tagged: Future of Art, Design, Art History, Predictions
“Education has become a substitute for thinking about the future.”
— Peter Thiel, Thiel Says College as Corrupt as Church 500 Years Ago
Tagged: Collage, Higher Education, Future Planning
“Home late, I see the lamp lit on the coffee table. You're there, still dressed for work, folding clothes,eyes mild at the task, arms embracing warm cotton before laying it down as if to bed. I lean against the mantle and breath softly to hear the tenderness of clothes buffeting cloth. Then you stand and your ass looks so modest as you bend to grab a stack of clothes.You draw it to your chest, careful not to drop a sock, and turn to the bedroom. I sneak to the coffee table to fix the magazines, wondering if you'd be willing to fold me, too.”
— Neal Allar, Laundry
Tagged: Soft Memories
“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and fall and rise again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet. Boats and youth passing and distant trees, ‘the falling fountains of the pendent trees.’ I see it all. I feel it all. I am inspired. My eyes fill with tears. Yet even as I feel this, I lash my frenzy higher and higher. It foams. It becomes artificial, insincere. Words and words and words, how they gallop— how they lash their long manes and tails, but for some fault in me I cannot give myself to their backs; I cannot fly with them.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Ideals, Longing, Power of Words
“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Fluid Identity, Who Calls When I Say I?, Always Shifting
“Expression is a miracle. Now try writing it down. Now try making it gorgeous. Now try making it perfect. An idea loses a lot and gains more as it hitchhikes its way through the world. But if it is expressed with the grace of a good cocktail at the end of a long and tiresome day, somebody did something right.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
Tagged: Creative Expression, Making Ideas Real
“Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel
Tagged: Fairness
“You have to understand, if you have a good book, offering it to an agent appeals directly to their self-interest. Does anyone ever say: How will I ever find a real estate agent? Of course not.”
— Ryan Holiday, How To Get A Book Agent
Tagged: Book Publishing, How To Get An Agent
“Platform companies aren’t really content organizations. They’ve built the pipes. But ultimately the pipes are only interesting in what comes over them.”
— John Shankman, Vox Media's Choire Sicha is the unlikely platform wrangler - Digiday
Tagged: Vox Media, Digital media
“I didn’t actually even defend traditional marriage. Simply the right of a student to defend traditional marriage without being bullied and demeaned.”
— John McAdams, Of Course I'm Not Going to Apologize' for Defending a Student's Freedom of Speech
Tagged: Academic Freedom