Haselrig

“The music was linked with almost everything I had done, none of the records came without a memory. Everything that had happened in the last five years rose like steam from a cup when I played a record, not in the form of thoughts or reasoning, but as moods, openings, space. Some general, others specific. If my memories were stacked in a heap on the back of my life’s trailer, music was the rope that held them together and kept it, my life, in position.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4

“Why, they're the dirtiest guys in any town. They're the same ones that burned the houses of old German people during the war. They're the same ones that lynch Negroes. They like to be cruel. They like to hurt people, and they always give it a nice name, patriotism or protecting the constitution.”
― John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle

“The measure of any man is what he does with the power he has; what kind of legacy he leaves in the world when he is gone. If he lives on in our memories what exactly do we most remember about his actions and how he has influenced or changed the lives of others. We cannot rely on the judgment of a few; we have to listen to his enemies as well as his friends. Moreover, what has he done to improve the lives of those who can never do anything for him?”
― Suzy Davies

“All life is but a skull-bone and
A rack of ribs through which
we keep passing food & fuel-
just so's we can burn so
furious beautiful.”
― Jack Kerouac