"If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do."
- Richard Pryor
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George
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Tue 1 Nov, 2011 04:40 am
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good”
― Thornton Wilder
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edgarblythe
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Tue 1 Nov, 2011 05:47 pm
“Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.”
― Ezra Pound
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edgarblythe
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Tue 1 Nov, 2011 05:53 pm
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. repr. (1979). Tropic of Cancer, p. 276 (1934).)
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
~ John Berger
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
~ Confucius
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edgarblythe
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Wed 2 Nov, 2011 04:12 am
“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.”
― Rod Serling
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spendius
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Wed 2 Nov, 2011 04:38 am
@edgarblythe,
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As a matter of fact, his kick in the pants to society came in the early going of Tropic of Cancer. I just posted the quote as a joke, anyhow.
Make jokes at my expense ed and not at Miller's or the "classics". Miller's the last person to put people off the classics.
Miller is among my favorite writers. By the time he wrote of Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, he had done an about face on many of his earlier rantings. He has five books that I dearly love.
As a young singer, Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane told her audiences, "We are your parents' worst nightmare." Decades later she was still performing, telling her audiences, "We are your parents."
