Ein Tag
das fürchte ich
stirbt
an seinem Abend
Unsinn:
Ein Tag
stirbt nicht
Nur der ihn Tag nennt
stirbt
und fürchtet für den Tag
um nicht
für sich selbst zu fürchten
-Erich Fried
but i always say,
one’s company,
two’s a crowd,
and three’s a party.
— andy warhol
A PHOTOGRAPH IS ONE THAT COMMUNICATE A FACT, TOUCHES THE HEART, LEAVES THE VIEWER A CHANGED PERSON FOR HAVING SEEN IT. IT IS, IN A WORD, EFFECTIVE.
— Irving Penn
Everything our parents said was good is bad; sun, milk, red meat, college …
— Alvy Singer in Annie Hall, played by Woody
I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.
— Dylan Thomas
››If you don’t know jewelry, know the jeweler.‹‹
— Warren E. Buffet
››I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.‹‹
— Author David Sedaris, on undecided voters
››New shoes always hurt‹‹
— Taxi Driver Wisdom
(C+I+G+X-Z) = GDP
— today read in: Burda/Wyplosz, Macroeconomics. A European Text
