Quotes – Page 57 – BIG OTHER

“People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.”

Happy birthday, El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X! Here are some quotes from the civil rights and human rights…

Happy birthday, W. G. Sebald! Here are some quotes from his writing. “‘It is thanks to my evening reading…

Happy birthday, Diane Arbus! Here are some quotes from the photographer. “The thing that’s important to know is that you…

“I commute all sentences.” —from Don Delillo’s The Names (p.32) This is lifted from a paragraph where a father, after a…

Happy birthday, Joseph Beuys! Here are some quotes from the artist. “I think art is the only political power, the…

Happy birthday, George Carlin! Here are some quotes from the comedian. “If you think there’s a solution, you’re part…

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! 82, today! Here is Against the Day‘s Jesse’s school essay on “What It Means to Be…

“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.” “A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle;…

“This is the sound of ten million girls singing of a time in the universe when they were born with…

Happy birthday, Annie Dillard! 74. today! “It’s about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices…