#graph

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ↗

— David Amram

#five #french #french horn #horn #issue

There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#experience

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it. ↗

— Aberjhani

#demographics-of-united-states #diversity #equality #freedom #george-zimmerman

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humor

Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers. ↗

— Matthew Brady

#even #experienced #more #photographers #results

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#invents #past #person #photographer #records

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#geography #humor #humour #humor

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real. ↗

— Virginie Despentes

#sex #food

Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly. ↗

— Andrew Bonar

#christianity #forgiveness

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#biography #done #great #history #writing