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geert simonis peppa pig era XII - can't sleep 'cause my fridge is on fire

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“And everything else - as if someone someone were speaking through a fan, and only the quickest speech-pieces made it between the blades - was chopped and whished into a single voice, indistinguishable from the rub of clothes and human weight against the walls and door.” John Irving - Setting Free The Bears (1968), p. 82

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“But the idea that fiction builds empathy is one of incomplete politics, left hanging by probably good intentions. The concept of instrumentalizing fiction or art as a kind of ethical protein shake, such that reading more and more diversely will somehow build the muscles in us that will help us see other people as human, makes a kind of superficial sense - and produces a superficial effect. The problem with this type of reading is that in its practical application, usually readers are encouraged - by well-meaning teachers and lazy publishing copy - to learn things; which is to say, as a supplement for their empathy muscles, a metabolic exchange that turns writers of color into little more than ethnographers - personal trainers, to continue the metaphor. The result is that we largely end up going to writers of color to learn the specific - and go to white writers to feel the universal.” Elaine Castillo - How To Read Now (2022), p. 30

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geert simonis peppa pig era XI - satan styles his hair with a helicopter

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“One thing seems to have mattered, though. My father was something of a linguist, and Jesenje is less than fifty miles from the University of Zagreb, where my father studied languages. This may have been a premonition on his part - pessimism at a tender age: to master the speech of several occupying armies before they came to occupy.” John Irving - Setting Free The Bears (1968), p. 181

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“We hechten pas later waarde aan het alledaagse. En de tijd gaat net te snel… Nee, de veranderingen om ons heen gaan precies zo langzaam dat we het net niet merken. Ik weet niet wie daar achter zit, maar het is heel gehaaid.” Spinvis in OOR, januari 2025, p. 61

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"Sometimes you get there by spending time together until you find one idea that clicks. And sometimes you simply don't find it. Not a beef... a thing, a problem with anybody - it's just that it doesn't happen. We are all just making things up as we go along, figuring it out, bumbling through. If everything was amazing all the time, I think we'd all be speechless, and if you make that your starting point for creativity, you're going nowhere."

Neneh Cherry - A Thousand Threads (2024), p. 247

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“Fun, after all, is supposed to be anathema to work, which is why the prospect of fun gets treated like a contagion. Fun threatens to infect and pervert the sanctity of labor and also the power of those who would had us do more of it, for free, by cramming more into the slim, preexisting spaces of paychecks and contracts. Fun, so this brand of managerial thinking goes, is an illegitimate use of company time since it doesn’t produce anything or make anybody richer.”

Sheila Liming - Hanging out - The Radical Power of Killing Time (2023), p. 115-116

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“And so this world might yet be spared the cool, old drudge of death-by-dullness.”

John Irving - Setting Free The Bears (1968), p. 85

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“De wereld is nooit klaar, je erin voortbewegen is om bouwputten heen slalommen, berispende fluitjes van ordehandhavers verdragen, proberen niet in botsing te komen of slaags te raken, niet ten onder te gaan aan het feit dat niets vast staat, dat trouweloosheid regeert.” 

Marja Pruis - Oplossingen - Het leven, mijn handreiking (2019), p. 257

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“But back in the Rathaus Park, with the little scrap from the radish-bag, I couldn’t tell he was a poet and a maxim-maker; I only thought he’d be an interesting fellow to know.”

John Irving - Setting Free The Bears (1968), p. 10

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“Ik had het idee dat ik aan een imaginair iemand mijn leven aan het uitleggen was, en dat ik daar steeds meer woorden voor nodig had.”

Marja Pruis - Oplossingen - Het leven, mijn handreiking (2019), p. 201

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“Het schijnt dat de wereld niet vooruitgaat door volledig tot wasdom te komen, maar door permanent in een staat van adolescentie te verkeren. Van fanatiek verkennen. Zoiets moet het zijn.”

Marja Pruis - Oplossingen - Het leven, mijn handreiking (2019), p. 114

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"Krankzinnige onzin. Een handvol woorden genomen. Onzinnige dingen gezegd. Gewoon onzin, die nergens wat mee te maken heeft."

Gerard Reve - De avonden (1947), p. 278

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"Dat moment, wanneer ik ook begin te twijfelen aan alledaagse woorden, ik ze zo lang blijf herhalen tot het willekeurige letters blijken te zijn, en letters willekeurige vormen, tot niets meer met elkaar verbonden is; die gierende angst, als valwind rondom een wolkenkrabber."

Lize Spit - Autobiografie van mijn lichaam (2024), p. 106

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"Barf up some alphabet soup, and you might create a more useful text."

Brandon Sanderson - The Frugal Wizard's Handbook For Surviving Medieval England (2023), p. 153

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