“Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification. (Terence sent me this quote the other day. A good battle cry, I believe... and one I wholeheartedly respect.)”
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
“Wakeful they lie.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.”
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.”
― Have a Little Faith: a True Story
― Have a Little Faith: a True Story
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