Showing posts with label blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blues. Show all posts

Sunday, May 03, 2020

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. 

A.A. Milne

Friday, May 01, 2020

Friday, March 22, 2019

I'm a fugitive from injustice
But I'm goin' to be free...

What About Me? Quicksilver Messenger Service

Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Everybody has a plan, till they get punched in the mouth.


Mike Tyson, as quoted by Avishai Margalit in the NYRB.

Thursday, July 13, 2017

That stone just keeps on rolling,
Bringing me some real bad news.
Takers get the honey,
Givers sing the blues.

Robin Trower

Saturday, January 09, 2016

Try to do what you do without mockery of our heartbroken little era. To mock is easy.

Anne Carson, 1=1, New Yorker of January 11, 2016

Monday, January 19, 2015

The totality of animals, the crushing majority of men, live without ever finding the least need for justification.


Michel Houellebecq, from his novel Submission as quoted by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker.

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Today’s news is always old news. The innocent get slaughtered and someone makes up excuses.

Charles Simic, Portable Hell (NYR)

Monday, March 10, 2014

It doesn't have to be understood to be real.

Peter Lanza

Tuesday, June 04, 2013

When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Thursday, January 24, 2013

I'm a treetop flyer,
Born Survivor.

Stephen Stills, Treetop Flyer

Monday, December 07, 2009

When you get there, you get there and that's the way it goes.

Otis Taylor