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Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilitie...

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montclair lip-read. Kids today... you kids today somehow don't know how to feel, much less love, to say not...

Infinite Jest

Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the best we can hope for from the Way of Christ is the level of Chri...

The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in good faith and without bombast, that art could...

The Shock of the New

I've a habit of placing a happy-face or a frowny-face on my calendar, depending on what kind of day I've had.  Often I slap a droopy circle in the box, discouraged by the things I failed to accomplish and the unpleasant encounters endured.  But the...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudd...

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

Mick reached backwards without breaking eye contact and ran his hand across the door behind him, “See this?” he said. “This is my door. And no-one is touching my door today.” He shook his head slowly as if the issue wasn’t even up for debat...

Weapon of Choice

Even today there still exists in the South--and in certain areas of the North--the license that our society allows to unjust officials who implement their authority in the name of justice to practice injustice against minorities. Where, in the days o...

Why We Can't Wait

Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, o...

Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

It could be yesterday when I was less in love I think For I didn’t see you in the mirror behind me while getting dressed. The way your hands couldn’t stay away and our bodies always found their ways back to each other as if they were meant to be ...

Charlotte Eriksson

Isaac Sachs: Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the Theory of Relativity and Principles of Uncertainty: phenomenon that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it ...

Cloud Atlas

Williamson: Where are you going? Ricky Roma: To the restaurant. What do you fucking care? Williamson: Aren't you going out today? Ricky Roma: With what? John. With what? Answer me! They stole the Glengarry leads, they stole Rio Rancho. Williamson: I ...

Glengarry Glen Ross

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

The Complete Essays

Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory.

Carousel Kisses

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

Today, man has been mired in invalidness up to such an extent, that being suspicious about reality isn't in his hand.

The Cavalier

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

Charlie Brown's Little Book of Wisdom

And, they would still be alive today...If they hadn't died, that is

Definitely Not for Little Ones: Some Very Grimm Fairy-tale Comics

Courtney Durham was molested in a cake shop today.

Dear Popsy: Collected Postcards of a Private Schoolboy to His Father