Quote o’ the Month; November….2013
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest of intelligence…”
~ Edgar Allen Poe; american author, critic, and poet.
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Quote o’ the Month – October….2013
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”
~ Truman Capote; american author, journalist and critic.
Quote o’ the Month – September….2013
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
~ Albert Camus; french author, journalist and philosopher.
Quote o’ the Month – August….2013
“smart people don’t exist… we alternate certain stupiditys.”
~ deacon khet; american poet, philosopher and murderer of classical literature…
Quote o’ the Month – July….2013
“Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.”
~ Theophile Gautier; french poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art and literary critic.
Quote o’ the Month – June….2013
“The text is a product in the sense that it is an output, something that can be recorded and studied, having a certain construction that can be represented in systematic terms. It is a process in the sense of a continuous process of semantic choice, a movement through the network of meaning potential, with each set of choices constituting the environment for a further set.”
-said in 1985 as cited in: Xueyan Yang (2010) Modelling Text As Process. p.20
~ M.A.K. Halliday; british linguist.
Quote o’ the Month – May….2013
“Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall despair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.”
~ William Saroyan; armenian-american dramatist and author.
Quote o’ the Month – April….2013
“We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.”
~William Hazlitt; british writer, critic and philosopher.
Quote o’ the Month – March….2013
“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.”
~John Cage; american composer, music theorist and author.
Quote o’ the Month – February….2013
“Art is a revolt against fate”
~ Andre Malraux; french essayist, novelist and art critic.