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The question for white-collar Brooklynites, as for white-collar workers in cities everywhere—severely battered by the crisis some of us helped engineer—is whether we persist in aiding the gentrification that allows such disparities to fester and grow, or whether we fashion a politics that levels the distance between the poor and ourselves—the very distance that allows us to feel so creative and new.
Nikil Saval, “Is the ‘New’ Brooklyn Economy For Real?”, Brooklyn Magazine (Summer 2012)
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There is a rich satisfaction in a story deeply told, a case richly argued, a puzzle meticulously untangled. (Note the tense. When people say they love writing, they usually mean they love having written.)
~The New York Times’ Bill Keller on why writers write.
(Source: talitaxx)
Profile of Women TV Execs: Why does it read sort of like a gossip mag?
but interesting nonetheless…
| Stephen: | What makes a woman? |
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| Halle: | Complexity...intuition...mystery. |
| Stephen: | What makes a man? |
| Halle: | A woman. |
“Isn’t it funny how you can know someone inside out and then suddenly, they just become an image, a bullet point, a blip.”
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The film is about the way we magnify people when we’re in love—walking down the street feeling like we’re floating, hence the slow motion, the music, the costumes, the colors. A lot of people said it was a case of style over substance, but being in love is often a case of style over substance.
Xavier Dolan on his film “Heartbeats”
