…quotes of the month…
“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
~’Jerome John’ “Jerry” Garcia; american musician, singer-songwriter and Grateful Dead guitarist.
“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.
“Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive.
It becomes a habit after you realize how peaceful and calm it is.
It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore
because they drain your energy.”
~James ‘Eugene’ “Jim” Carrey; canadian-american comedian, actor and painter.
“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”
~Hermann ‘Karl’ Hesse; german-swiss poet, novelist and painter.