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I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar. ↗


— Brad Leithauser


#astronomy #chile #metaphor #novelists #telescope

Nev tossed his pen down. “Fine. Here goes: Ren and Cals lives may be torrid for the young ones in Vail are quite horrid Bine and Cos aren’t too frail Dax and Fey never pale while Ansel and Bryn might get sordid Bryn spit Diet Coke all over the table. Mason and Ansel clapped. I was too dumbfounded to react. This is qhat quiet Nev does in his spare time? “‘Bine’?” Sabine frowned while Cosette mopped up the soda that flowed to their end of the table. “Since when am I ‘Bine’? And we never call Cosette ‘Cos.’” “It’s about cadence,” Nev said. “Sorry. I said it wasn’t very good.” “Why aren’t you and Mason in it?” Ansel asked. “Oh, he has another one about us.” Mason wiggled his eyebrows. ↗


— Andrea Cremer


#ansel-tor #bane-pack #calla-tor #humor #limericks

cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group. Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 276 ↗


— Cal Jillson


#poverty #dreams

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. ↗


— Alexis de Tocqueville


#immigration #equality

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. ↗


— David Rockefeller


#filling #formerly #innovations #involved #maintaining

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you. ↗


— Kiera Cass


#change #goodbye #love #maxon #relationship

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you. ↗


— Clotaire Rapaille


#americans #code #culture #divine #god

I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial. ↗


— Mark Galli


#church #denial #praise-and-worship #death

Live from abundance; Utilize with economy; Share in advance. ↗


— Geoffrey M. Gluckman


#consumerism #joy #life #living #love

You never know when you might need to kill someone. ↗


— Merlin


#death #humor #merlin #murder #death






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