#mia

Sometimes you have to do things you don't like in order to make a change in the world. ↗

— Carrie Ryan

#miasma #change

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove ↗

— T.M. Williams

#change #empowering #fear #home #change

Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider connection weakens the sense of community. This happens in scholarly life when such essential functions as professional service or teaching do not get discussed openly or often enough. ↗

— Charles E. Glassick

#communication #scholarship #communication

I don’t know what circumstances occurred in your life for you to build such a strong brick wall around your heart, but I do intend to tear it down." ~Cole ↗

— Tina Carreiro

#love #mia #soulmates #life

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#artist #artistic #bohemian #bohemianism #art

I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their Volkswagen, crushing his chest slowly against a brick wall. As he screamed in agony larger than representation can accommodate, they referred to his text and had orgasms. Later, they jumped up and down yelling, ‘You’re not a hero. You’re not a hero. You’re not. You’re not. You’re not.’ “ “How do you analyze that part of the dream, Anna?” …”I guess I’m nervous about my birthday. ↗

— Sarah Schulman

#dreams #j-g-ballard #psychoanalysis #sexism #william-burroughs

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#education #education

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#education #humanities #university #education

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here. ↗

— David Caruso

#great #here #i #i love #living

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor