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“Why don’t you write books
people can read?"
Nora Joyce, to her husband, James
“Unless the medicine stuns you it won’t cure the disease.”
Zen proverb
“Let’s get clear here about what needs to be neglected.”
Brad Blanton
“I saw
the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Michelangelo
“Say one word with your mouth shut!”
Zen Saying
“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
Adrienne Rich
“No one’s mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing”
Alan Watts
“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has
had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it
from me, sent me another.”
Jean Cocteau
“No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through
tears.”
Unknown
“You can’t start
worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough
worrying about what’s
happening now.”
Lauren Bacall
“One real world is enough.”
Santayana
“The mind is a
bullshit machine.”
Brad Blanton
“They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time
when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all
fused into
a single stubbornness.”
Louise
Erdrich
“Any idea, when firmly held, nurtured, and cultivated, will
eventually
create its own reality.”
Paul Watzlawick
“Maybe writers have too much imagination to
contrive a romance.”
trouble
“A great deal of
intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
Saul Bellow
“The
basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
“If the only tool
you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Abraham Maslow
“The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.”
Roseanne Barr
“Pain sure brings out the
best in people, doesn’t it?”
Bob Dylan, 1971
“Not doubt, certainty
is what
drives one insane.”
Neitzshe
“What you pursue, you
don’t get. But what you allow to grow slowly in
its own way, comes to
you.”
Rabbi Pinhas
“Somebody showed it to me, and I found it by myself.”
Lew Welch
“Be not
angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to
be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.”
Thomas ã Kempis
“It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill
luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material
universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe
that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster
“ I just heard rock-n-roll in my head so fucking
loud that I couldn’t ignore it.”
Neil Young, 1988
“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
William Carlos Williams
“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used
to want.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“America is a mistake. A giant mistake.”
Sigmund Freud
“I found out Lennon was more accessible.”
Mark David Chapman
“Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”
Drew Barrymore
“A poem is a city filled
with streets and sewers
filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen,
filled with banality and booze,
filled with rain and thunder and periods of
drought, a poem is a city at war…”
Charles Bukowski
“A man has missed something if he has never woken up in an
anonymous bed beside a face he’ll never see again, and if he has never left a
brothel at dawn feeling like throwing himself into the river out of sheer
disgust with life.”
Flaubert
“It takes a long time to understand nothing”
Edward Dahlberg
“Apart from the known
and the unknown, what else is there?”
Harold Pinter
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Look in the mirror. The
face that pins you with its double gaze reveals
a chastening secret.”
Diane Ackerman
“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.”
William S. Burroughs
“Fraud and falsehood
only dread examination. Truth invites it.”
Thomas Cooper
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within
a dark
wood where the straight
way was lost.”
Dante: Divine Comedy, The
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the
wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What
you'll
discover will be yourself.”
Alan Alda
“I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there
if
Jesus Christ was
President.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Where I am, I don't know, I'll never
know, in the silence you don't know, you must
go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”
Samuel
Beckett, The Unnamable (1959) page 418
“I took a deep breath and listened
to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” Sylvia
Plath
“God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.”
Jacques Rigaut
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an
open sewer and die”.
Mel Brooks
“Man, when you lose your
laugh you lose your footing.”
Ken Kesey
The Zen Master said,
“Who binds you?”
The seeker of liberty said,
“No one binds me.”
The Zen Master said,
“Then why seek liberation?”
Zen Mondo
“The more things happen to
you the more you can’t tell or remember
even what they were. The contradictions cover such a range.
The talk would talk and go so far aslant.
You don’t want madhouse and the whole thing there.”
William Empson, Let It Go
“We must endure our
thoughts
all night, until
The bright obvious stands
motionless in the cold.”
Wallace Stevens
“At times I think and at times I am.”
Paul
Valery
Q:
“If you find so much that is unworthy in the United States
then why do you live here?”
A:
“Why do men go to zoos?”
H.L. Mencken
“The most terrible thing is happy love, for then there is fear in
everything.”
Cosima
Wagner
“Act as if it were
impossible to fail.”
Dorothea Brande
“I was born when you kissed me. I died when
you left me. I lived a few
weeks while you loved me.”
Humphrey
Bogart
“Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians
are malevolently
well informed about the
United States.”
J. Bartlett Brebner
“Laughing
at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to
laugh at oneself… questioning the seemingly absurd beliefs of
another
is a good way of recognizing the… absurdity of one’s own cherished
beliefs.”
Gore Vidal
“If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get
from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.”
Rollo May
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
Brendan Francis
“Housework, if you do it
right, will kill you.”
Erma Bombeck
“…our ‘master status’ is the status with which we are most
identified …the most viable status of a mental patient is being a mental
patient, so that all other statuses of such a patient are ignored or
interpreted in light of his master status. Therein lies the principal stigma
that a mental patient must endure and that is undoubtedly responsible for at
least some of the difficulty many mentally ill persons have in attempting to
recover.”
Gerhard Falk: Stigma, How We Treat Outsiders.
“One out of four people in
this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if
they seem OK, then you're the one.”
Ann Landers
“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
Woody Allen
“There is no perfection…this is a broken world and we live with
broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything. On the
contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.”
Leonard Cohen, 1995
“Touch a face. Touch a
hand. Say, “This is for you, this is
what I want you to
wear.”
Estee Lauder
“Be still when you
have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to
say, and say it hot.”
D. H. Lawrence
“In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a
fact.”
Marlene Dietrich
“WAS it good for you?” what this means: “Better fuck next
time.”
trouble
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with
the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
Jack London
“Beauty is truth, truth
beauty, -- that is all
Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.”
John Keats, Ode On
A Grecian Urn
“The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of
our truths.”
William James
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind
don't matter and those
who matter don't mind.”
Dr. Seuss
“When someone shows you what he
is, BELIEVE it.”
Doctor Maya Angelou
“When you judge another, you do not
define them, you define yourself.”
Doctor Wayne Dyer
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always
three o'clock
in the morning, day after day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Crack-Up
“You have to show violence the way
it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If
you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”
Roman Polanski
“The question isn't who is going
to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand
“In the fight between you
and the world, back the world.”
Franz
Kafka
“Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and
even the most foolish women are wise about men.”
Theodore Reik
“Women are smarter than men because they listen.”
Phil Donahue
“All the reasons of man cannot outweigh a single feeling of a
woman”
Voltaire
“… it would be possible
for him
to abandon her where she
is and joke about it
later, but he’s alone and the guilt can’t be
divided into small forgettable pieces;
he’s finding out what it
means
to be a man and how different it is
from the way that only hours ago he imagined it.”
Alden Nowlan
“A man has no business to marry a woman who can’t make him
miserable. It means
she can’t make him happy.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Through me you pass into
the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, The
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and
know we cannot live within."
James Baldwin
“Why be a man when you can be a success?”
Bertolt Brecht
“If you
want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the
people
he gave it to.”
Dorothy Parker
“The poet skims off the best of life
and puts it in his work. That is why his work
is beautiful and his life bad.”
Tolstoy
“If the copious writings
of the mad are about one thing, it is above all the desire to cease
to be misunderstood.”
Roy Porter, Faber Book of Madness, The
“There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased
this line.”
Oscar Levant
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
Jeremy S. Anderson
“As soon as questions of will or decision or
reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”
Noam Chomsky, in a television interview
“I could prove God statistically.”
George Gallup
“I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown
across a
sawdust floor.
I've always loved high style in low company.”
Anita Loos
“An ideal wife is one who
remains
faithful to you
but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.”
Sacha Guitry
“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge
upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to
another person. But these
seemingly fragile people
“Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this
have entertained angels without realizing it.”
Hebrews 13:2
“In the end, everything is a gag.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Craving, not having, is
the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.”
Eric Hoffer
“The vast majority of
women who pretend vaginal orgasms are faking it to “get the job.”
Ti-Grace Atkinson
“First, it is impossible that you have no creative gift. Second,
the only
way to make it live and increase is to use it.
Third, you cannot be sure that it is not a great gift.”
Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write
“Women are not bound to their names with any strong bond.
When they marry they give up their own name without any sense of loss…The
fundamental namelessness of the woman is simply a sign of her undifferentiated
personality.”
Otto Weininger, 1906
“Those impaired with masculinity make a big deal out of
insignificant issues b/c the smallest issue symbolizes control, who wins and
who loses. Their embarrassing possessiveness of the remote control is a case in
point. They may have virtually no control over the rest of their lives but these
individuals will defend the remote control with their very existence b/c of the
symbolic
power it represents.”
Joseph Rock, Barry Duncan: Let’s face It: Men Are Assholes
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but
when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around
you.”
Leo Tolstoy
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world
and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
E. B. White
“I merely took the
energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
Duke Ellington
“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty,
soft music.”
“Don’t touch that. And
stop your whining too.
Stop it. I mean it. You know I do.
If you don’t stop, I’ll give you fucking something
to cry about right here
and don’t you think I won’t either.
So she did. She slapped
him across the face.
And you could hear the snap of flesh against the flesh
halfway across the store. Then he wasn’t whining anymore.
Instead, he wept. His little body heaved and shivered and
wept.
He was seven or eight. She was maybe thirty.
Above her left breast, the pin said: Nurse’s Aid.”
David Budbill
“Einstein suffered the fate of many other revolutionaries who
boldly take
the first steps on a new
road but
shrink from the next steps.
Others may come along to pick up the journey because the road
seems too sinister to its
discoverer.”
Werner Heisenberg
“The greatest genius will
never be worth much if he pretends to
draw exclusively from his own resources.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.”
Simone Weil
“The best advice I can
give a writer is: The Muse visits during the act
of composition, not before.”
Roger Ebert
“…He allowed himself to be
swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the
day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over
again to give birth to themselves.”
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure
adversity and
stumble from defeat
to defeat.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski
“In order to commit suicide, one cannot write a meaningful note;
conversely if one could
write a meaningful note, one would not have to commit
suicide.”
Edwin Shneidman, suicide expert
“I leave out the parts that people skip.”
Elmore Leonard,
novelist
“Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a
response.
It is therefore fear-based.”
Deepak Chopra
“All that we see or seem is but a dream
within a dream.”
Edgar Allen Poe
“I starve myself as to
remember. Never to be a slug, that’s my ambition. Never to be a glutton of the
fat. To live with a little hunger, a feeling, always hollow in my belly. Never
to become one of them, absolutely never to become a grown-up.”
Billy Childish, My Fault
When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to
easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were
as distinct and as soberly in order as
an automatic gearshift.”
James Agee
“Falsehood flies, and the
truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived it is too
late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect.”
Jonathan Swift
“I've always been interested in
people, but I've never liked them.”
Henry James
“People know what they do;
they frequently know why they do what they do;
but what they don’t know
is what they do
does.”
Michel Foucault
“You've got to have
something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for
any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”
"No
one is listening until you make a mistake."
Anon.
“Water which is too pure has no fish.”
Ts’ai Ken T’an
“The only difference between me and a madman
is that I'm not mad.”
Salvador Dali
"Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou
Dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,
By attributing overmuch to things
Less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest."
“Kilgore Trout once wrote
a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were
discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in
their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came
close to guessing that they were making champagne.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Breakfast of
Champions
“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If
you don't live it, it won't
come out of your
horn.”
Charlie Parker
“People often take
prejudice or habit for truth and in that case feel no discomfort, but if they
once realize that their truth is nonsense, the game is up. From then onwards it
is only by force that a man can be compelled to do what he considers absurd.”
Alexander Herzen (circa 1850)
“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different
opponents appear
as if they belonged
to one category."
Adolf Hitler
“Chess
is as elaborate a waste of human
intelligence as you can find outside of
an advertising agency.”
Raymond Chandler
“As far as the remote
control is concerned, this relatively new, technologically facilitated
manifestation of masculinity has already reached epidemic proportions. Those
impaired can now control the TV, VCR and stereo without moving. Some
begin to believe in their own magical powers or omnipotence. In these tragic
cases, they experience profound levels of anxiety at movie theatres, where the
film and story unwind independent of their control.” Joseph Rock and Barry Duncan: Let’s Face It, Men Are
Assholes
“I think my whole generation's mission is to
kill the cliche.”
Beck
“After we have a
breakthrough and escape the mind jail, we quickly build ourselves another nest
of beliefs to keep from going out of control. Today’s liberating insight
becomes tomorrow’s jail. The truth is immediate, passing and temporary. The
truth is always changing. How else could it be? The truth is the present.”
Brad Blanton
“You need to claim the
events of your life to make yourself yours.
When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take
some time,
you are fierce with reality.”
Fionda Maxwell
“People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one
is that for which they
will forsake the others.”
Marcel Proust
“Though much is taken,
much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are,
we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and
fate, but strong in will,
To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.”
Alfed, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
"It’s no good trying to fool
yourself about love. You can’t fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying
up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can’t bear the thought of
messing up your nice, clean soul, you’d better give up the whole idea of life,
and become a saint. Because you’ll never make it as a human being. It’s either
this world or the next.”
John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy,
if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
Socrates
“Love is not the dying moan of a
distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.”
S. J. Perelman
“If I get married, I want to be very
married.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Intelligence
recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.”
John Ciardi
“The relationship between
commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is
healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.”
Rollo May
“Learn to ask for what you want... The worst people can do is not
give you what
you ask for—which is precisely where you were before you asked.”
Peter McWilliams
One day Chao-chou fell down in the snow, and called out “Help me
up! Help me up!” A
monk came and lay down
beside him. Chao-chou got up and went away.
Zen Koan
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that
no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are
determined not be done.”
Marge Piercy
“The path to
success is to take massive, determined action.”
Anthony Robbins
“The best time I ever had
with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened
to Baby Jane?”
Bette Davis
“It is said that London police
can always distinguish among corpses fished out of
the Thames, between those who drowned themselves because of unhappy love
affairs and those drowned for debt. The fingers of the lovers are almost
invariably lacerated by their attempts to save themselves by clinging to the
piers of bridges. In contrast, the debtors apparently
go down like slabs of
concrete, without struggle and without afterthought.”
A. Alvarez
“The most important things to say are those which often I did
not think necessary for me to say—because they were too obvious."
André Gide
“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”
Chekhov
“Look, see the long
shadow cast by the tree;
And flowers and people throw shadows on the earth:
What has no shadow has no strength to live.”
Czeslaw Milosz
“Had
the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.”
Ralph Ellison
“To know all is not to
forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”
Quentin Crisp
“Nice place for your spirit to visit, but only a soul can find a
home here.”
Robin on troublewaits
“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.”
Shakespeare
“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the
death within me how to live.”
Jean
Cocteau
“Normal is getting dressed
in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are
still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the
clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to
live in it.”
Ellen Goodman
“To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best,
night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the
hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”
e.e.
cummings
“Even a little dog can piss on a big building.”
Jim Hightower
“Love is simple to
understand if you haven’t got a mind soft and full of holes. It’s a crutch,
that’s all, and there isn’t any one of us that doesn’t need a crutch.”
Norman Mailer
“Our Father which art in Heaven,
Stay there
And we will stay on
earth
Which is sometimes so pretty.”
Jaques Prevert
“No Comment”
anonymous suicide note: Or Not to Be
“We are still mad about
the mad. We still don’t understand them
and that lack of understanding makes us mean and arrogant, and
makes us
mislead ourselves, and so we hurt them.”
David Cohen: Mad In America
“I wish they would only take me as I am.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“I like mathematics because it is not human
and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental
universe - because, like Spinoza's God,
it
won't love us in return.”
Bertrand Russell
“Life
is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great
truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know
that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is
no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is
difficult no longer matters.”
M. Scott Peck
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual
expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.”
Charles Dickens
“Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got
some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have
any flour; well,
I'll
give you some of mine.”
Ray Charles
“I used to think I was poor. Then they told
me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of
myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was
overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime.
But I have a great vocabulary.”
Jules Feiffer
“When you're drowning, you
don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would
have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,'
you just scream.”
John Lennon
“When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten
out your soul.”
Langston Hughes
“The art of love ... is
largely the art of persistence."
“Your best teacher is your last mistake.”
Ralph Nader
“Something
we were withholding made us feel weak
until we found it was ourselves.”
Robert Frost
“Insanity does not exist
as such. The unorthodox forms of behavior that we view as insane in fact make
up a language, the best one available for those whose suffering is too great to
express itself in any other way. It is up to us to decipher that language.”
Bruno Bettelheim
“The concept…is perpetually hiding us all from the nature of the real.”
Joyce Cary
“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended
on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they
gradually pass away.”
Chuang Tzu
“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond
their own understanding.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The sad truth is that excellence makes
people nervous.”
Shana Alexander
“Humanity has
advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”
Tom Robbins
“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of
life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and
lived at least part of its contents.”
Ezra Pound
“The task of the mentally
ill is no different from the task of the others: to experience the world and
tell the story.”
Susan Bauer
“There
was only one catch and that was a Catch-22, which specified that concern for
one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were
real and immediate
was the process of a rational mind.
Orr was crazy and could be
grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he
would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and
sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he
was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
“The storytelling always
includes the audience, the listeners. In fact, a great deal of the story is
believed to be inside the listener; the storyteller’s role is to
draw the story out of the
listeners.”
Leslie Marmon Silko
“…For those who slip into
the disguise of “normal” behavior b/c they cannot tolerate the tension caused
by the contradiction between the reality imposed on them and their inner
world, real feelings soon
cease to exist. Instead, these people operate with ideas about
feelings, not with experiences of them… The “saner” the image of
the identity they have adopted the more successfully they will be able to
perform this manipulation. And manipulation it is, for their goal is not
self-expression; instead they want to convince others that they act, think, and
feel appropriately. These are the people whom I want to expose as the truly
insane ones among us.”
Arno Gruen: The Insanity of Normality
To understand is almost the opposite of existing.”
Georges Poulet
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is
competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
Isaac Asimov (1920
- 1992)
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
Jack
Lemmon
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
Muriel Rukeyser
“So
the lover must struggle for words.”
T.S. Eliot
“And though the tremble of
a sigh
May tremble through the story,
For happy summer days gone by,
And vanish’d summer glory—
It shall not touch, with breath of bale,
The pleasure of our fairy-tale”.
Lewis Carrol: Through the Looking-Glass
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm
frightened
of
the old ones.”
John Cage
“If
you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you
will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if
I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.”
Eugene V. Debs
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for
what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before
we can enter into another.”
Anatole
France
“I don’t even know what
street Canada is on.”
Al Capone
“The map is not the territory”
Korzbybski
“A neurotic is a
person who incessantly demands that life be other than it is.”
Brad Blanton
‘How to keep your boyfriend
in line: act crazy”
trouble
“I’ll be your mirror”
Lou Reed
“You’re doing what you were meant to do.
Call it what you want, you were born to be an artist.”
Basil, aromatic
plant, author’s Tubman
Home.