1. THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING by MILAN KUNDERA

    “Don’t forget,” said the writer, his face more and more agitated, “it was in Rourou that I first rode a bike. Yes, I tell about it in detail in my book. And you all know what the bicycle signifies in my work. It’s a symbol. For me, the bicycle is the first step taken by humanity out of the patriarchal world and into the world of civilization. The first flirtation with civilization. The flirtation of a virgin before her first kiss. Still virginity and already sin.”

    “That’s true,” said Joujou. “Tanaka, a girl I worked with, had her first orgasm riding a bicycle when she was still a virgin.”

    Everyone started discussing Tanaka’s orgasm, and Tamina asked Bibi: “May I make a telephone call?”

     

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  3. The Cross of Hollywood
    terrysdiary

     


    1. Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
    2. Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway.
    3. If asked if you care about the world’s problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again.
    4. Never give your real name.
    5. If ever asked to look at yourself, don’t.
    6. Never do anything the person standing in front of you can’t understand.
    7. Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

     


  4. No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with Your own language, with this “relation” precisely, which is yours.
    —  Jacques Derrida.

    (Source: warzonetourism)

     

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  6. georges wassouf for your anxieties~

    he’s only 12? 13? here. before all the coke trashed his voice.

     

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  8. slavs and tartars, 2011 sharjah biennale

     


  9. We sacrifice ourselves for each other. And that guilt that we feel when we let somebody down or when they’re afraid of us when they think they’re gonna kill us is a sort of excommunication phobia where we’re not being good monkeys, we’re not doing this right, this person’s afraid of me, I hurt somebody. I’m not long for this world if I gotta function on my own. I will not survive out there.