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"A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here"
~ Emily Dickinson
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thanks to @DirkPuehl
Paul Holdengraber
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Paul Holdengraber
@holdengraber
Former Founding Dir. OnassisLA & Dir. LIVEfromNYPL | Interviewer, Instigator, Curator of Public Curiosity | Also Quotomania & TheQuarantineTapes @dublab @lithub
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2009
- "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." ~ James Baldwin
- "Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.” ~ Tom Waits .@IrishLitTimes
- “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ~ James Baldwin
- ♦️MARY SHELLEY Born on this day, in 1797 “I have love in me ... and rage” ~ Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”
- Walter Benjamin’s notebook, in which he wrote down all the books he read since he was 18.
- 🔷 ALBERT CAMUS 🔷 Died on this day, in 1960 “Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
- “We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.” ~ Tom Waits
- “Erik Satie never used to open the letters he received, but he always answered them.” ~ Enrique Vila-Matas
- “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ~ Blaise Pascal
