Quote of the Month; May…2011
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
~Edgar Lawrence Doctorow; american author.
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Quote of the Month; April….2011
“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.”
~Marshall McLuhan; canadian communications theorist and author.
Quote of the Month; March…2011
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
~John Lennon; british singer-songwriter, artist, musician and activist.
Quote of the Month; February….2011
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
~Andy Warhol; american artist.
Quote of the Month; January…2011
“We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simple truth that earth’s resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day…”
~Thomas Pynchon; american author and satirist.
Quote of the Month; December….2010
“I’m always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don’t see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.”
~Irvine Welsh; scottish author and playwright.
Quote of the Month; November….2010
“We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
~Ram Dass; american author, psychonaut and spiritual guide.
Quote of the Month; October…2010
“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
~Carlos Castenada; american author and philosopher.
Quote of the Month; September….2010
“New carriers and springboard publishers will emerge to herald and forge the zeitgeist paradigm pulse. That’s why the underground always regenerates itself like a groove compost heep.”
~Ray Castle; british techno shaman, trance theologian, existential electro alchemist, meta magician and DJ.
Quote of the Month; August….2010
“Without obsession, life is nothing.”
~John Waters; american movie director, bad taste aficionado and guru of trash.