Judith Fitzgerald > Judith's Quotes

“Someone asked me if I really believed there was life after death. I replied: Do you really believe there is any life before death?”
― Marshall McLuhan

“The fucking you get ain't worth the fucking you get.”
― Wade Ferrel

“Wake up and smell the corpses.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“I don't leave home without me.”
― Judith Fitzgerald, River

“Big Brother is catching.”
― Judith Fitzgerald, Ultimate Midnight

“My mother warned me about me.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“You take the shit; you make an art of it; then, you die.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“Have a nice life and an even nicer afterlife.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“For us there is only the trying.”
― T. S. Eliot

“Poetry is not business as usual.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“I'm not difficult, I'm decisive. If a woman puts you on hold, she's considered a bitch.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“Done there. Been that. Bought the biscuit.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“I fought the raw; the raw won.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“Get a gripe.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“I heard it through the gripevine.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“Someone's got a bad case of sour gripes.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“Here are the prey; there are the predators; but, the challenge remains: Be neither.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“You made your bed; now, you can die in it.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“If books could kill, I would have written more of them before I died.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“The road to health is paved with good preventions.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle
is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies, and eternal present . . .
— The Society of the Spectacle”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“Some days, I wish the whole fucking world would just 'phone in sick.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“See? I can read between the lies of the lines of the writing on the wail.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“We are free to do as we are told.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“We are where we need to be (whether we like it or not).”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“Unlike Maxine Kumin, I never learned to pay the syntax.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“Only the good die dumb.”
― Judith Fitzgerald

“Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19)”
― David Eso, Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

“…it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21)”
― Jeanette Lynes, Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets