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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

People in Pain

"People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves."

— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Elliott Erwitt
Jacksonville, Florida, 1968
From Elliott Erwitt: Personal Exposures
Elliott Erwitt
Jacksonville, Florida, 1968
From Elliott Erwitt: Personal Exposures

"As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature’s cage."

— Vladimir Nabokov, from “On a Book Entitled Lolita

*taken again from liquid night

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