January 2009
30 posts
“De Arbeiderspers zond drie kanshebbers niet in voor de Libris Literatuur Prijs,...”
– Weijts en Münstermann niet ingezonden voor Librisprijs 2009 | NRC Boeken
Via Cappello 23 is (voorlopig) inderdaad een goed boek.
“C’est avec les beaux sentiments qu’on fait de la mauvaise...”
– André Gide
“Le bonheur est cet état moral résultant de la satisfaction en degré et en durée...”
– Henri Benac, Guide des idées littéraires, p59
Liefst alles tegelijk. Matérielles. Sensuelles. Intellectueles. Affectives etc. Ik ben veeleisend.
“Oublier est le grand secret des existences fortes et créatrices.”
– Balzac (Extrait de César Birotteau) - Citations - EVENE
“British environmental campaigner George Monbiot was so impressed by The Road...”
– The Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
True. I share this sentiment.
“I have never been a line-pusher and I say this with regret. I just think it is...”
– Pensive - Arnon Grunberg - Blog
“How do I know”, asked Auden (one of our greatest essayists, as well as our...”
– Essays: A OK or B not good? | Books | guardian.co.uk
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman (Song of Myself) Quotes
“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that...”
– Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
“A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully...”
– Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
Exams are like the sea. Will the final wave, argh, swallow me? Haha, I’m such a positivist.
“There is nothing in American literature that more succinctly and directly...”
– Teacher proclaims Twain, Lee and Steinbeck irrelevant in Obama age | Books | guardian.co.uk
“L’obéissance n’est qu’une forme canonisée de la paresse.”
– Germaine Beaumont (Si je devais), Citations - EVENE
“‘Ik zeg weleens dat de ideale zoon voor veel ouders als een standbeeld op...”
– De Standaard Online - De look als tweede huid (Interview met Xavier Pommereau), DS 23/01/2008
“The standard set of albums from the 60s and 70s that every boomer likes. Boomers...”
– Urban Dictionary: dad rock
“Old man, yelling at a passing ambulance with blaring sirens: Oh, shut the fuck...”
– Overheard in New York | The Voice of the City
“Are You Raising a Douchebag? Your indulgent parenting is spawning a generation...”
– Details Blog on men.style.com: Are You Raising a Douchebag
“There are many kinds of reading and many sorts of things to read. You may be...”
– ADLER ARCHIVE: How to Keep Awake While Reading
“Ik voel de oude wanhoop van het instrument,
dat tot het uiterste gedreven...”
– Maria Vasalis, ‘Kennen’
“Le seul danger, c’est la bêtise ou l’incompétence.”
– Isabelle Huppert; Extrait d’une interview dans “Madame Figaro - 19 Janvier 2008”
“lollygag \LAH-lee-gag\ verb : to spend time idly, aimlessly, or...”
– lollygag
“The summer, in some climates, makes possible to man a sort of Elysian...”
– Merriam-Webster Online definition of ‘elysian’
