November 2011
“We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.”
—
Mona Simpson, “A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?pagewanted=all
October 2011
“I can confirm five dead and 45 wounded. In our hospital in Marare, we received 31 children, nine women and five men. All of them of with shrapnel injuries.”
—A Kenyan air strike in Somalia has killed five people and wounded 45, mostly women and children, in a camp for people displaced by drought and violence, says Gautam Chatterjee of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) . (source)
“Kim Kardashian earned $17,900,000 from her wedding and divorced 72 days later (but gays ruin the sanctity of marriage).”
—Tyler Oakley (via kateoplis)
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
—Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (via lostinthesounds)
