“We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on a belfry floor, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,399 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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“Dedicating the new museum to ‘the cause of peace,’ FDR took up the theme that Barr had been pushing ever since his initial encounters with Nazism: the essential connection between modern art and liberal government. ‘The arts cannot thrive except where men are free to be themselves and to be in charge of the discipline of their own energies and ardors,’ Roosevelt said. ‘The conditions for democracy and for art are one and the same.’”
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“If I withdrew my friendship from everyone who had spoken ill of me, my address book would be empty!”
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“Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.”
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“Rosamund has no interest in French. If she wishes to be understood by a foreigner, she shouts.”
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“‘Lie’ is so unmusical a word.”
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“You don’t mind my taking over the flowers, do you? Cora’s flowers always look more suited to a first communion…in southern Italy.”
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“I swear to God, Maddie, it’s like you’re out of some modern-day fairy tale.”
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“I see it as part of our role to help the next generation find their own voices. Everyone has to walk into the light themselves. That space of exploration is where new ideas emerge, and the more we stay open, the more able we are to find harmony. We live in a world full of extraordinary souls.” (Nick Cave)
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“Is any of this real? Could this possibly be the truth? Did such a day, I had to ask, really happen? Of course it did, George said. As inculcated, he began (in his accent it was a word that brought me great pleasure)—as inculcated as we are in the belief that we’re meant for some great purpose, that tomorrow, he said, we’ll live as the wealthy live, we are in truth conditioned to expect very little of our lives. It feels closed off to us to enjoy life. Yet we all have such days—at least once, but as often as not peppered throughout a life. These are the days we would see before we die, if it turns out to be true that we see anything at all.”
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“Imagine describing a dog to someone who’s never seen one before and then asking them to draw it. They might get some things right, you know, but there is no way they would get everything right, you know? The devil is in the details.”
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“Loss becomes the primary condition of living. That doesn’t mean you’re in a hopeless, grief-stricken state all the time; it just means that you carry a deeper understanding of what it is to be human. We suffer as human beings, but out of that can come enormous joys, and genuine happiness, too. It can run in tandem with this ordinary sense of suffering. Otherwise, joy doesn’t resonate fully. Joy seems to leap forth out of suffering. Regardless of your loss, you see how beautiful, how meaningful, how joyful the world can suddenly be. Human beings in general, you know, are fleeting things. That’s something to understand on a fundamental level. That we have value. That we are precious.”
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Deborah Roberts, Ulysses, 2019 
Olga de Amaral, Bruma W, 2018 (foreground); Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mirror Study (0X5A7431), 2018 (background left); Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Facets: Screen Wall, 2016 (background right) 
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Lucy Raven, Murderers Bar, 2025 
Lucy Raven, Murderers Bar, 2025 
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“Ça ne manque pas, les chambres. The world is full of rooms— big rooms, little rooms, round rooms, square ones, rooms high up, rooms low down—all kinds of rooms! What kind of room do you think Giovanni should be living in? How long do you think it took me to find the room I have? And since when, since when”—he stopped and beat with his forefinger on my chest—“have you so hated the room? Since when? Since yesterday, since always? Dis-moi.”
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Curtain call at City of Angels
