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Quote of the Month; February….2010

“Nothing was holy to us. Our movement was neither mystical, communistic, nor anarchistic. All of these movements had some sort of program, but ours was completely nihilistic. Our symbol was nothingness, a vacuum, a void…”
~ George Grosz; german artist and DaDa proponent.




Quote of the Month; January….2010

“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!”
~ H. P. Lovecraft; american author of weird, science, fantasy and horror fiction.




Quote of the Month; December….2009

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”
~ Robert Anton Wilson; american author, philosopher and sit-down comedian.




Quote of the Month; November….2009

“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can’t talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”
~ Philip K. Dick; american science fiction author and philosopher.




Quote of the Month; October….2009

“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”
~ Evelyn Waugh; british author, journalist and social critic.




Quote of the Month; September….2009

“I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. I don’t like anything in the mainstream and they don’t like me.”
~ Bill Hicks; american comedian and common philosopher.




Quote of the Month; August….2009

“I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.”
~ David Icke; british author, philosopher and conspiracy theorist.




Quote of the Month; July….2009

“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
~ William S. Burroughs; american author and artist.




Quote of the Month; June….2009

“It’s because we’re so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We’re so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we’re trained to want.”
~ Chuck Palahniuk; american author and social philosopher.




Quote of the Month; May….2009.

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
~ Franz Kafka; german-bohemian author and philosopher.