Chuck LoPresti

“But me no buts, we're going to make whoopee, I tell you.”
― Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine

“Why frighten little children with the dark when one can quiet them with it and lead them into dreams?”
― Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Autobiography of a Corpse

“Everything we feel and do is somehow oriented "lifeward," and the least deviation away from this direction toward something beyond is difficult or alarming. This is true even of the simple act of walking: one lifts one's center of gravity, pushes it forward, and lets it drop again - and the slightest change, the merest hint of shrinking from this letting-oneself-drop-into-the-future, or even stopping to wonder at it - and one can no longer stand upright!”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities: Volume I

“May your course not run from one end to the other; for such a course does not exist; but may every step you take mark a redressed projection.
With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.”
― Marcel Schwob, El libro de Monelle