“Let’s take a sentimental journey. Don’t forget to bleed. I have.”
― Selected Poems
― Selected Poems
“There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express even a little freedom, that places them beside Pascal and St. Augustine as religious thinkers. Their view is saved from pessimism only by its mystical recognition of the possibilities of pure Will, freed from the entanglements of automatism”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
“A sports journalist doesn't have to be sporty any more than a political journalist has to be an opportunistic liar.”
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“It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive.”
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“I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.”
― The Blazing World
― The Blazing World
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