“Death is a black camel that kneels down so we can ride.
When the dyings finally done and the suffering subsides,
all the suffering gets done by the ones we leave behind.”
~David Berman; american musician, singer-songwriter and poet.
“You feel the music needs something but you don’t know what.
So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying.
Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that’s frustrating,
especially if you don’t come up with something for three days.”
~Beth Gibbons; british singer-songwriter and musician, main lyricist for Portishead.
“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
~’Jerome John’ “Jerry” Garcia; american musician, singer-songwriter and Grateful Dead guitarist.
“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
~’Sir Ahmed’ Salman Rushdie; british-american novelist.
“Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.”
~Willard ‘Van Orman’ Quine; american philosopher and logician.
“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim;
he or she has become a threat.”
~James ‘Arthur Jones’ Baldwin; american writer and civil rights activist.
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
~ Bertrand ‘Arthur William’ Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; british mathematician, philosopher and logician.
“You become political when you can no longer endure the world.”
~Marguerite ‘Germaine Marie Donnadieu’ Duras; french novelist, playwright and experimental filmmaker.
“People do not see you. They invent and accuse you.”
~ Helene ‘Hine’ Cixous; french writer, playwright and literary critic.
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
~Thomas ‘Kennerly’ “Tom” Wolfe Jr.; american author, social critic and journalist.