October 2009
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"If President Obama really had to get a gift... →
“Obama’s Nobel surprise,” The New Yorker (Oct 19, 2009)
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"Malia walked in and said, 'Daddy, you won the... →
President Obama on waking up and receiving the Nobel Prize.
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"IN BRITAIN, as every Anglophile knows, the... →
— James Parker, “Brit Wit” (The Atlantic, Oct 2009)
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart;...
– Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf (via misswallflower)
Setting the World On Fire
Andy Warhol: I wonder if people are going to remember us?
Edie Sedgwick: What, when we're dead?
Andy Warhol: Yeah.
Edie Sedgwick: Well I think people will talk about how you changed the world.
Andy Warhol: I wonder what they'll say about you... in your obituary. I like that word.
Edie Sedgwick: Nothing nice, I don't think.
Andy Warhol: No no, come on. They'd say, "Edith Minturn Sedgwick: beautiful artist and actress...
Edie Sedgwick: ...and all around loon.
Andy Warhol: ...Remembered for setting the world on fire...
Edie Sedgwick: ...and escaping the clutches of her terrifying family...
Andy Warhol: ...Made friends with eeeeverybody, and anybody...
Edie Sedgwick: ...creating chaos and uproar wherever she went. Divorced as many times as she married, she leaves only good wishes behind.
[laughs]
Edie Sedgwick: That's nice, isn't it?