Matthew Morgan

@AOConversation

Art Of Conversation: Exploring life, culture, and meaning through literature, cinema, and music. For exclusive content:

Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2018.

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    28. sij

    My new essay on 's dazzling and destabilising film, "The Farewell": "How Certainty Collapses"

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  2. prije 6 sati

    “I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.” ~ Robert Coover, born , 1932

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  3. prije 8 sati

    "Jolly nose! there are fools who say drink hurts the sight, Such dullards know nothing about it; 'Tis better with wine to extinguish the light Than live always in darkness without it." ~ William Harrison Ainsworth, born , 1805 [image: Caricature in "Punch", 1881]

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  4. The latest essay from Art Of Conversation is published today for patrons only, available to everyone next Tuesday. If you want early access to my writing and to support what I do, check out my patreon:

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  5. “My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.” ~ Patricia Highsmith, died , 1995

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    3. velj

    “When writers die they become books which is after all not too bad an incarnation.”    ~ Jorge Luis Borges George Steiner, Harold Bloom, Clive James R. I. P.

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  7. “We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.” ~ Robert Coover, born , 1932

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  8. 3. velj

    "Technology ... has collapsed our sense of place, and in particular the old idea that certain spaces had certain specific purposes." on the important of purpose to place, and place, subsequently, to purpose.

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  9. 3. velj

    “You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.” ~ Gertrude Stein, born , 1874

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  10. 3. velj

    "The Farewell is a question; it is an exploration; it is a thought-experiment full of heart. Most of all, it is a challenge." On 'The Farewell': "How Certainty Collapses"

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  11. 3. velj

    “In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.” ~ Gertrude Stein, born , 1874 [image: "Gertrude Stein" by Pablo Picasso, 1905-06]

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  12. 3. velj

    “Names are not always what they seem.” ~ , quoted in my essay: "Strange Heart Beating: What's in a name?"

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  13. 2. velj

    “He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.” ~ James Joyce, born , 1882 Quoted in "Arguing Semantics: Do Words Really Matter?"

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  14. 2. velj

    “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ~ James Joyce, born , 1882

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  15. 1. velj

    “Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” ~ , born , 1902

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  16. 1. velj

    "Is knowledge of reality worth more than pleasure? Or, more poetically, is a beautiful lie preferable to an ugly truth?" My new essay on "The Farewell": "How Certainty Collapses"

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  17. 1. velj

    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” ~ , died , 1851

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  18. 1. velj

    “She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.” ~ Muriel Spark, born , 1918

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  19. 1. velj

    "If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?" On "Arrival" and how we move forward by looking back:

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  20. 31. sij

    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ~ A A Milne, died , 1956

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  21. 31. sij

    “Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.” ~ Norman Mailer, born , 1923

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