My mama used to tell me, “If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find something’ to die for.”
– Tupac Shaku
“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,
Student of our sweet English tongue,
Read out my words at night, alone:
I was a poet, I was young.”
Clive James writes in his review of the BBC’s film version of War and Peace:
“Tolstoy’s greatest book is the way it is because he thought he was everybody. He had pretensions to philosophy – screen versions sensibly leave all that out – but his universality was not just intellectual, it was instinctive. No human feeling was unknown to him, but looking at the pictures can give you only some of that: you have to read the words.”
Slavic French folkloric poses
"An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to 'quit their jobs' and follow it."
Madeleine Riffaud, hero of the French Resistance, has died at the age of 100. “The essential was not to give in. When you resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.”
From Kenji Lopez-Alt, a list of all of his favorite Thanksgiving recipes in one place: turkey, pie, gravy, potatoes, stuffing, biscuits,...
People Just Don’t Want To Stay Out Late Anymore
Fools and their money are easily parted
The media is getting very excited by the value of a Bitcoin having supposedly reached $100,000 overnight. It didn’t. What happened was that became the
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