charm

Posted on | November 22, 2004 |

In life there is a sort of awkwardness, a delicacy of health, a frailty of constitution, a vital stammering which is someoneís charm. Charm is the source of life just as style is the source of writing. Life is not your history ñ those who have no charm have no life, it is as though they are dead. But the charm is not the person. It is what makes people be grasped as so many combinations and so many unique chances from which such a combination has been drawn.

–Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues.

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2 Responses to “charm”

  1. Mel
    November 22nd, 2004 @ 4:46 pm

    “Those who have no charm have no life”

    Great t-shirt slogan!

  2. mc gregg
    November 22nd, 2004 @ 8:23 pm

    Yes, it’s rivalling sandy’s ‘cultural studies is not an insult’, which i also adore (sandy is visiting me tomoro! yay!):

    http://strikecuriousposse.blogspot.com/2004/11/cultural-studies-is-not-insult.html#

    maybe we should make some shirts for the csaa conference… our panel has been contemplating a dress code…