Alexander > Alexander's Quotes

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”
― Lester Bangs

“Your audience are whores, oxygen farmers, two dozen pirate bands, and fifty runaway mathematicians. They would all love to see dancing and fighting.”
― Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix Plus

“People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“Nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clapp can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization. [on Finnegans Wake]”
― Ezra Pound, Pound-Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce With Pound's Critical Essays and Articles About Joyce

“It is as though a poem gave the reader as he left it a single, new word, never before spoken and impossible to actually enunciate, but self-evident as an active principle in the reader’s consciousness henceforward.”
― Hart Crane, The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose

“And you'll walk in rolling your eyes and you'll walk out whistling sadly through your teeth because the fuel of the Nerd Mafia is disappointment and exclusion.
- On the Watchmen movie”
― Patton Oswalt

“The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.”
― Alfred Jarry

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”
― Andre Gide

“I'd gladly read something that is exceptionally stupid or bad as long as it was done by someone with some sort of personal vision, even if that person was a complete moron.”
― Daniel Clowes, Daniel Clowes: Conversations

“Words of wisdom: Drop that zero and get with the hero.”
― Vanilla Ice

“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?”
― Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007

“It's one of the Filter theories. Absorption into simulations. Cultures swirling out of the universe like dirty water down a plug. Derealization vortices.”
― Nick Land, Phyl-Undhu: Abstract Horror, Exterminator

“A monster, in comparison, can be no more than a guide -- unless it fuses (like Yog Sothoth) into the enveloping extracosmic fabric, as a super-sentient concentration of doors.”
― Nick Land, Phyl-Undhu: Abstract Horror, Exterminator

“Marx himself was a formidably cultivated man in the great central European tradition, who longed to be finished with what he scathingly called the 'economic crap' of Capital in order to write his big book on Balzac.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

“Sometimes Love seemed to us its essential character, and we imagined it with the forms of all the Christs of all the worlds, the human Christs, the Echinoderm and Nautiloid Christs, the dual Christ of the Symbiotics, the swarming Christ of the Insectoids. But equally it appeared to us as unreasoning Creativity, at once blind and subtle, tender and cruel, caring only to spawn and spawn the infinite variety of beings, conceiving here and there among a thousand inanities a fragile loveliness. This it might for a while foster with maternal solicitude, till in a sudden jealousy of the excellence of its own creature, it would destroy what it had made.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

“Most of my life has been spent not understanding, and I can assure you, it was not easy.”
― Rilke

“The criminal resembles the artist in his pretension, his incompetence, and his self-pity.”
― Martin Amis, The Information

“Philosophy is garbage. But the history of garbage is scholarship.”
― Burton Dreben

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928

“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Clea

“We are a race of tit-men...”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.”
― Terence McKenna

“One must always strive to be as radical as reality itself.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”
― Clive James

“A book is a machine to think with.”
― I.A. Richards

“All books are merely delayed dust.”
― George Elliott Clarke

“Civilization consists in giving something a name that doesn’t belong to it and then dreaming over the result.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet