Quotes

Some favorites I’ve read/heard…

Henry Miller

-The very great have written little or nothing at all.
-What one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.
-I dream a new blazingly magnificent world which collapses as soon as the light is turned on.
-Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.
-If I lie a bit now and then it is mainly in the interest of truth.
-It is only in periods of decadence that truth becomes complicated and conscience a heavy sack of guilt.
-What we all unreasonably demand is that life be given on our terms.
-Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history.
-Man is in revolt against himself. How can he overthrow himself?
-Let man make himself as secure as he imagines, the gate will give way.
-The most monstrous crimes against humanity are being committed every day by those who have had all the advantages of learning.
-If now and then I complained of exhaustion it was from not being able to write, never from writing too much.

* Sam Beckett

-Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-There are many ways in which the thing I am trying in vain to say may be tried in vain to be said.

Henry David Thoreau

-The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the ‘means’ are increased.

Carl Bernstein

- We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Christopher Hitchens

- What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

- The mills of the TV preachers continue to grind, and the poor continue to finance the rich, just as if the glittering temples and palaces of Las Vegas had been built by the money of those who won rather than those who lost.

More to come.

-tgs-