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“It is to be hoped the time will come, thank God, in some circles it already has, when language is best used where it is most efficiently abused. Since we cannot dismiss it all at once, at least we do not want to leave anything undone that may contribute to its disrepute. To drill one hole after another into it until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through - I cannot imagine a higher goal for today's writer.”
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“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”
― The Thief's Journal
― The Thief's Journal
“Ce n'est pas pour devenir écrivain qu'on écrit. C'est pour rejoindre en silence cet amour qui manque à tout amour. C'est pour rejoindre le sauvage, l'écorché, le limpide. On écrit une langue simple. On ne fait aucune différence entre l'amour, la langue et le chant. Le chant c'est l'amour. L'amour c'est un fleuve. Il disparaît parfois. Il s'enfonce dans la terre. Il poursuit son cours dans l'épaisseur d'une langue. Il réapparaît ici ou là, invincible, inaltérable. ”
― La part manquante
― La part manquante
“specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
“I realized that Joyce had gone as far as one could in the direction of knowing more, in control of one's material. He was always adding to it; you only have to look at his proofs to see that. I realised that my own way was impoverishment, in lack of knowledge and in taking away, subtracting rather than adding. When I first met Joyce, I didn't intend to be a writer. That only came later when I found out that I was no good at all at teaching. When I found I simply couldn't teach. But I do remember speaking about Joyce's heroic achievement. I had a great admiration for him. That's what it was: epic, heroic, what he achieved. I realized that I couldn't go down that same road.”
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