#rap

December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of this year, then comes a new one. Then, what? No one knows. -- Diary of Bertha Kate Gaddis who passed away 6 months later, age 78, West Lafayette, IN. ↗

— Angie Klink

#educators #narrative #women-s-strength #age

Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So long as the writer is a woman who was once a whore and is moderately wealthy in her old age. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#memoir #age

I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor. ↗

— Maya Banks

#abused-women #anger #rape #vengeance #anger

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. ↗

— Robert Smith

#another #became #extreme #found #i

The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#las-vegas #traps #architecture

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#content #focus #i #images #inadequate

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#photography #art

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ↗

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#photography #art

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cod #fish #humor #images #inspirational

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#art-appreciation #photography #art