Travel and Dancing

What one expects and gets from travel and dance—a liberation from earthly woes, the possibility of an aesthetic relation to organized toil—corresponds to the sort of elevation above the ephemeral and the contingent that might occur within people’s existence in the relation to the eternal and the absolute. . . . Through their travels (and for the time being it doesn’t matter where they are headed) the shackles are burst, and they imagine that infinity itself is spreading out before them. In trains they are already on the other side, and the world in which they land is a new world for them. The dancer also grasps eternity in the rhythm: the contrast between the time in which he floats about and the time that demolishes him is his authentic rapture within the inauthentic domain. Dance itself can readily be reduced to a mere step, since after all it is only the act of dancing that is essential.

Siegfried Kracauer, 16th November, 1924, Frankfurter Zeitung

As quoted in the New Yorker article, Only Disconnect 

"You can never really heal from being an experiment."
My sister

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“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn”

David Russell (Scottish classical Guitarist, b.1942)

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“Poetry is life distilled”

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000), American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

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"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."

Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990), Canadian-American educator.

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"The way to start writing isn't to start writing at all, but by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but about documenting our personal feelings about the things that we see, or to put it crudely, how are you going to be a storyteller if you have no story to tell? Perhaps, in the end, there are not such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts."

Yasmin Ahmad (January 7, 1958 - July 25, 2009), Malaysian director, writer, scriptwriter, ad-woman, and sorely missed storyteller.

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"Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion."

Marcus Aurelius (26 April 121 – 17 March 180), Roman emperor (161–180).

Hmmm...

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"They, that unnamed “they”, they’ve knocked me down but I got up. I always get up — and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I’ve long ago named them me."

Gregory Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001), American Beat Poet.
From A-S.

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if you really want to see something in 3D, go see something called "live theatre".

crotoan

If you haven't got your tickets to "A Light in KL City" on at KLPAC, go get them NOW!
From Axcess Tickets HQ in PJ, 1U or Alamanda Putrajaya, or at the KLPAC box office. You can bring along friends and family (live shows make memorable Christmas gifts!) and I assure you, it'll be time and money well spent.

I'm going to catch the performance on the 26th. Can't wait!

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

Gratiano in Act I, Scene i of Shakespeare's "The Merchant Of Venice".

Bring on the celebrations!

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An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Whoopi Goldberg (b. November 13, 1955), American actress actor and comedian.

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"Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it."

Norman Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director. In a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq.

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Oh Great Spirit, grant that I may never find fault with my neighbor until I have walked the trail of life in his moccasins.

Cherokee Prayer

(Yiddish) Quote of the Week

When you need salt, sugar is useless.

Yiddish Saying.
Sigh...how very true!

Ohrly?

Don't ask unless you're really, really prepared to hear the answer.
Don't say you care unless you're really, really prepared to ask.

Quote of the Week/Farewell

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950), Polish-American philosopher, mathematician and scientist.

Via ay-es, who is deserting me leaving soon.

M'dear,
Have a safe, smooth and comfy flight—may you be served by a hot and suave air-steward (or stewardess, whichever rocks your boat), may the food be better than edible, may you get hours of blissful sleep, and may you land fresh as a sprite, ready to take over the world.

I shall miss you—your style, wit, idealism (lol) and intelligence, and of course, our many shared rants.

May you find greener pastures, inner peace, personal fulfillment and lots of fierce vintage clothes in your size and within your budget. Take care of yourself now, all the best, and keep in touch 'till we met again. Until then, Good Luck and Goodbye!

Much love always,
Algy
xoxo

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900), Irish playwright, poet, author, wit and 19th Century Poster Boy.

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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.

Opening lines to Stephen King's The Body.