Kurt Vonnegut died last night; he wrote:
We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies.
When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock.
My God, my God -- I said to myself, "It's the Children's Crusade."
__________________________
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.
----------------------------------requiescat in pace, Kurt.----------
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
My favorite words 1: Miscelanea
First Fig
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night:
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay.
__________________________
L'art c'est ce qui rend la vie plus intéressante que l'art.
Gerard Fromanger
__________________________
"We are like tourists with guns."
(Anonymous USA National Guardsman; in Afghanistan)
__________________________
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked . . . angelhead hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dinamo in the machinery of night.
Allen Ginsberg
__________________________
The artist must make posterity believe he never lived.
Gustav Flaubert
__________________________
The intention of the historical avant-garde movements was defined as the destruction of art as an institution set off from the praxis of art.
Peter Burger
__________________________
Everything that isn't autobiographical is plagiarism.
Pedro Almodovar
__________________________
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than for other people.
Thomas Mann
__________________________
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
__________________________
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
Bret Easton Ellis
__________________________
If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn't call it research, now, would we?
Albert Einstein
__________________________
You just have to go on when it is worst and most helpless.
There is only one thing to do with a novel and that is go straight on through the end of the damn thing.
Ernest Hemingway
__________________________
Nenhum escritor gosta realmente de escrever.
Eu gosto de beber vinho e de amar: na minha idade eu não devería perder tempo com outras coisas, mas não consigo parar de escrever.
É uma doença.
Rubem Fonseca
__________________________
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
__________________________
One writes because one does not know what one has to say, to try to find out what it is.
J. F. Lyotard
__________________________
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell
__________________________
You can't think your way to write action.
You can only act your way to write thinking.
David Milch
__________________________
I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull nothing replies to our anxious invocations.
Mary Shelley
__________________________
Keep remiding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
Andre Breton
_____________
I'm not an artist.
An artist makes an object. Me; it's not an object, I work in history.
I'm a storyteller.
Sebastião Salgado
__________________________
La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarse trabajando.
Pablo Picasso
__________________________
I don't paint what I see, I paint what I know.
Pablo Picasso
__________________________
If you write a little everyday without hope eventually the shape of the story will appear.
Lord Tennison
__________________________
Le romancier médiocre fait ses romans d'après sa vie réelle, les bons d'après ses vies possibles.
Andre Gide
__________________________
He, too, has resigned his part
On the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
William Butler Yeats
__________________________
A common sense which denies the superiority of uncommon sense is systematic superficiality.
Northrop Frye
__________________________
L'Habitude es la synthèse originaire du temps, qui constitue la vie du présent qui passe; la Mémoire es la synthèse fondamentale du temps, que constitute l'être du passé, (ce qui fait passer le présent).
Gilles Deleuze
__________________________
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it might lead.
John Stuart Mill
__________________________
If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write.
Rainer Maria Rilke
__________________________
Destroy my desire, blot out my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
__________________________
The literal details of writing involve one's own physiology or metabolism. You begin from a standing start and you have to accelerate yourself to the point of celebration where the words are coming - well, in order. All writing is generated by a certain minimum of ego: you must assume a position of authority in saying that the way I'm writing is the only way it happened. Writer's block, for example, is simply a failure of ego.
Norman Mailer
__________________________
Canta, oh Diosa, la gula del espectador.
Carlos Monsiváis
__________________________
Out, out, brief candle!
Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
__________________________
God knows there are enough natural limits to human knowledge without our suffering willingly those that are enforced upon us by an ignorantly rationalized fear of experience . . .
Prudence restrains me. But as the past must sometimes be affronted so also must prudence sometimes be overruled. Caveat.
Alexander Trocchi
__________________________
Eternamente é ter éter na mente
Chacal
__________________________
Is there a life before death?
Seamus Heaney
__________________________
All my gestures try to overcome the irreflexive orthodoxy of my ancestors.
Hugo Pezzini
__________________________
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night:
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay.
__________________________
L'art c'est ce qui rend la vie plus intéressante que l'art.
Gerard Fromanger
__________________________
"We are like tourists with guns."
(Anonymous USA National Guardsman; in Afghanistan)
__________________________
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked . . . angelhead hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dinamo in the machinery of night.
Allen Ginsberg
__________________________
The artist must make posterity believe he never lived.
Gustav Flaubert
__________________________
The intention of the historical avant-garde movements was defined as the destruction of art as an institution set off from the praxis of art.
Peter Burger
__________________________
Everything that isn't autobiographical is plagiarism.
Pedro Almodovar
__________________________
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than for other people.
Thomas Mann
__________________________
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
__________________________
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
Bret Easton Ellis
__________________________
If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn't call it research, now, would we?
Albert Einstein
__________________________
You just have to go on when it is worst and most helpless.
There is only one thing to do with a novel and that is go straight on through the end of the damn thing.
Ernest Hemingway
__________________________
Nenhum escritor gosta realmente de escrever.
Eu gosto de beber vinho e de amar: na minha idade eu não devería perder tempo com outras coisas, mas não consigo parar de escrever.
É uma doença.
Rubem Fonseca
__________________________
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
__________________________
One writes because one does not know what one has to say, to try to find out what it is.
J. F. Lyotard
__________________________
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell
__________________________
You can't think your way to write action.
You can only act your way to write thinking.
David Milch
__________________________
I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull nothing replies to our anxious invocations.
Mary Shelley
__________________________
Keep remiding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
Andre Breton
_____________
I'm not an artist.
An artist makes an object. Me; it's not an object, I work in history.
I'm a storyteller.
Sebastião Salgado
__________________________
La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarse trabajando.
Pablo Picasso
__________________________
I don't paint what I see, I paint what I know.
Pablo Picasso
__________________________
If you write a little everyday without hope eventually the shape of the story will appear.
Lord Tennison
__________________________
Le romancier médiocre fait ses romans d'après sa vie réelle, les bons d'après ses vies possibles.
Andre Gide
__________________________
He, too, has resigned his part
On the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
William Butler Yeats
__________________________
A common sense which denies the superiority of uncommon sense is systematic superficiality.
Northrop Frye
__________________________
L'Habitude es la synthèse originaire du temps, qui constitue la vie du présent qui passe; la Mémoire es la synthèse fondamentale du temps, que constitute l'être du passé, (ce qui fait passer le présent).
Gilles Deleuze
__________________________
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it might lead.
John Stuart Mill
__________________________
If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write.
Rainer Maria Rilke
__________________________
Destroy my desire, blot out my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
__________________________
The literal details of writing involve one's own physiology or metabolism. You begin from a standing start and you have to accelerate yourself to the point of celebration where the words are coming - well, in order. All writing is generated by a certain minimum of ego: you must assume a position of authority in saying that the way I'm writing is the only way it happened. Writer's block, for example, is simply a failure of ego.
Norman Mailer
__________________________
Canta, oh Diosa, la gula del espectador.
Carlos Monsiváis
__________________________
Out, out, brief candle!
Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
__________________________
God knows there are enough natural limits to human knowledge without our suffering willingly those that are enforced upon us by an ignorantly rationalized fear of experience . . .
Prudence restrains me. But as the past must sometimes be affronted so also must prudence sometimes be overruled. Caveat.
Alexander Trocchi
__________________________
Eternamente é ter éter na mente
Chacal
__________________________
Is there a life before death?
Seamus Heaney
__________________________
All my gestures try to overcome the irreflexive orthodoxy of my ancestors.
Hugo Pezzini
__________________________
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