1. 21 November 2009
    “I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

    book greatness ambition

  2. 20 November 2009
    “It’s better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.”
    Ted Kennedy

    war peace

  3. 19 November 2009
    “When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
    Erma Bombeck

    humor civilization

  4. 18 November 2009
    “I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. I don’t want any more vicissitudes, I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel

    depression routine

  5. 17 November 2009
    “Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.”
    Karen Allen, Malcolm X 

    movie truth

  6. 16 November 2009
    “It’s funny how people use that phrase, life and death, as if life is the opposite of death. Birth is the opposite of death. Life…has no opposite.”
    James Van Der Beek, Dawson’s Creek

    tv life opposites death

  7. 15 November 2009
    “We’re all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us.”
    Rachel Griffiths, Six Feet Under

    tv mortality scars

  8. 13 November 2009
    “I wept at various pitches and velocities, using my wail to describe a devastating unhappiness that surprised us all. After the session, my three people hugged me, and within their tangle, I felt safe.”
    Miranda July, How to Tell Stories to Children from the collection No One Belongs Here More Than You

    book tears comfort

  9. 12 November 2009
    “It’s not war that’s insane, you see. It’s the morality of it. It’s not greed or ambition that makes war: it’s goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons - for liberation or manifest destiny. Always against tyranny and always in the interest of humanity. So far this war, we’ve managed to butcher some ten million humans in the interest of humanity. Next war it seems we’ll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity. It’s not war that’s unnatural to us, it’s virtue. As long as valor remains a virtue, we shall have soldiers. So, I preach cowardice. Through cowardice, we shall all be saved.”
    James Garner, The Americanization of Emily

    war movie virtue

  10. 12 November 2009
    “I wish that just once people wouldn’t act like the clichés that they are.”
    Lauren Ambrose, Six Feet Under

    authenticity tv