stream of consciousness

Mostly quotes and links that are too long to put on http://www.twitter.com/sbglick. Also, the occasional photo that doesn't make it onto http://sbgphoto.blogspot.com, which are photos that don't make it onto http://sbglicksteen.com.
Dec 18
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“ Journalism is chores. Journalism is bondage unless you can see yourself as a private eye inquiring into the mysteries of a new phenomenon.
— Norman Mailer, The Faith of Graffiti
Dec 15
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“ After 4 years of use, my bag looks like [unattractive expletive], and nobody would ever mistake me for a professional photographer if it weren’t for my scarf.
— Liam Maloney, via lightstalkers
Nov 26
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“ You see, she was already carrying more light than a flash could illuminate.
— AP staffer Bebero Matthews on telling Lynsey Addario to throw her flash in the garbage.
Nov 25
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“ I tell stories about people. Sitting on subways, in airports, or in cafes in new cities, I make up stories about people. I tell stories in part because I imagine others’ lives, but mostly because it helps give context to my own. At times, I take this a bit further, and imagine what it’s like, when I visit a new town, to leave behind where I am and, for a moment, suspend belief about the thing I’m doing. What would it be like to move here, to imagine the people in this place as my future friends and neighbors.
— Liz Danzico (via couch)
Nov 22
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Overheard in the Newsroom #2210

  • Reporter: “Isn’t that strange?”
  • Other Reporter: “If everybody did things that were perfectly normal, we would be out of a job.”
Nov 16
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Nov 04
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“ I hate traveling and explorers.
— Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Overheard in Downtown Boston

  • Man who appeared to be homeless, speaking to a boy with a skateboard who looked about 13: See, I told you to eat your vegetables.
Oct 27
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  • Nick: You're all crazy: nuts.
  • Martha: Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads. Relax; sink into it; you're no better than anybody else.
  • [Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf]
Oct 20
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“ The Class of 2009 is hearty. We don’t get fazed by much anymore. September 11 was our first week of high school. Hurricane Katrina our first week of college. Our political consciousness was shaped by the Bush presidency and officially awoken by the candidacy and election of Barack Obama. And I think we’ll definitely reach a point where we’re no longer “lost” but leading everyone out of the woods.
— Suzanne Merkelson, Class of ‘09: Finding Our Bliss?