Favourite quotes

[Ianonabike]

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." - Robert Frost

 

[Ianonabike]

Tom Stoppard has died.

“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? ”

“It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”

 

[Ian H]

Tom Stoppard has died.

“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? ”

“It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”

I recall a school production in the late 60s. We also mounted a production of Oh What a Lovely War around then. I think our head of geography, Geoff Shovelton was the driving force - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Shovelton

 

[Ian H]

View: https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1995378407979552819



William Dalrymple on Xwitter
Wonderful- and entirely characteristic- Tom Stoppard story.This is integrity. This is how we writers must roll if our work is to mean anything at all:
"Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?"

"No," Tom said, "BBC Radio."

 

[Ianonabike]

View: https://x.com/jonathanbfine/status/1995206512743198895

 

[Ianonabike]

One more on Stoppard:

 

[Pblakeney]

One more on Stoppard:

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That’s already been covered.

 

[Ianonabike]

Thought I'd seen that somewhere...

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication." - Susan Sontag

 

[The Crofted Crest]

progress is a comforting disease.
e.e. cummings

 

[Ian H]

progress is a comforting disease.
e.e. cummings

The Enormous Room is Cummings' account of incarceration by the French during WW1. One of my favourite books.

 

[briantrumpet]

The Enormous Room is Cummings' account of incarceration by the French during WW1. One of my favourite books.

Thanks - have downloaded a pdf for later digestion. Capital(s). And full-stops.

 

[Ianonabike]

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." - attributed to Alfred Adler

 

[Ianonabike]

Stretching the definition of favourite...

"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power." - Judith Butler

Here's the context, if that helps. You may have to verify you're human for that link; something Butler would struggle to do.

 

[All uphill]

Stretching the definition of favourite...

"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power." - Judith Butler

Here's the context, if that helps. You may have to verify you're human for that link; something Butler would struggle to do.

Funny, I was just thinking that as I cycled to the cafe this morning.

 

[Pblakeney]

Stretching the definition of favourite...

"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power." - Judith Butler

Here's the context, if that helps. You may have to verify you're human for that link; something Butler would struggle to do.

I read a lot of words that said very little.