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“How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I’m about as erudite as a traffic cop. I like to know things; what’s so two-headed peculiar about that?”
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“11. I am inclined to say: I 'point' in different senses to this body, to its shape, to its colour, etc.--What does that mean?
What does it mean to say I 'hear' in a different sense the piano, its sound, the piece, the player, his fluency? I 'marry', in one sense a woman, in another her money.”
― Zettel
What does it mean to say I 'hear' in a different sense the piano, its sound, the piece, the player, his fluency? I 'marry', in one sense a woman, in another her money.”
― Zettel
“The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.”
― The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
― The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
“You have built a wall of concrete shit between yourself and reality.”
― The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing
― The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing
“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
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