July 2011
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15 Years in Prison For Taping the Cops? How... →
bradicalmang:
More and more people use their smartphones to record police misconduct. But laws against wiretapping are being used to intimidate and stop them.
Over Memorial Day weekend this past May, residents of Miami Beach witnessed a horrific display of police brutality as 12 cops sprayed Raymond Herisse’s car with 100 bullets, killing him. The shooting provoked outrage in the surrounding...
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“(If life occupies the first place in the hierarchy of lies, love comes...”
– Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay
“In what way do proletarians differ from slaves?
The slave is sold once and for...”
– Friedrich Engels, “The Principles of Communism” (via waitingforbrodot)
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“‘I’m learnin’ one thing good,’ she said....”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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“It should be added that sometimes a man will appear in society for whom it has...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“Each one of them, moreover, so different by nature to begin with from the...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“I do not hesitate to paint you on your rose-colored couch. T… is there,...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“A libertine’s need of virginity is another form of the eternal homage love...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“The only illnesses from which you ever suffer are those acquired on your...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“Your soul, to talk like Tolstoy, is a dark forest. But the trees are of a...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“A woman will not hide the fact that she loves balls, horse-racing or even...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“Through the metamorphosis which today shackles some winged desire in this...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“Then I imagined that you were a princess come from very far away down through...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“I saw you just now for the first time, Cydalise, and I admired first of all your...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“Having witnessed a rather indecorous scene, Ercole would not think of speaking...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets; fragments from Italian comedy
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“… as crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the water-pot lose their...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “History”, 1841
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“It is not the last time I tell you this: I have told you before, I almost missed...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“Then, while more and more, pleasure took possession of me, I felt at the same...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“After the suicide of my mind everyone admired my intelligence, was enchanted by...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“O poppies, cornflowers and clover, if I bore you off in such a frenzy, all...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“How is it possible that the pure water of these memories, gushing forth again,...”
– Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets
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“Through the forgetfulness we seek from counterfeit delights,
Amidst our...”
– Henri de Régnier
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“The cravings of the senses drag us hither and thither, but when the hour is...”
– Kempis, Imitation of Jesus Christ, Book I, c.XVIII
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My current read, Pleasures and Regrets, is a period piece published in 1896 by the French writer Marcel Proust. At the age of twenty-five, this collection of sketches, stories, and thematic writings became the author’s first published work, thirteen years before In Remembrance of Things Past.
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Gilda (1948)
The worm’s eye-view is so often the true one.
In other words, you’ve changed the subject.
Hate is the only thing that has ever worn me.
Disaster to the wench.
Lucky at cards, unlucky at love.
Only frustrated people smoke too much, and only lonely people are frustrated.
‘Would it interest you to know how much I hate you, Johnny?’ ‘Very much.’ ‘I...
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