Quotes of the Month; September 2024

“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
~Thomas ‘Kennerly’ “Tom” Wolfe Jr.; american author, social critic and journalist.

“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.

“The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.”
~Austin Osman Spare; british artist, author and occultist.

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
~’Laura’ Jane Addams; american activist, sociologist and author.

“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
~ Herbert George “H.G.” Wells; british author and so-called “father of science fiction”.

“Dandyism is an aesthetic form of nihilism.”
~Jean Baudrillard; french sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist.

“I’m kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there’s some point where it doesn’t allow for the complexity of things.”
~Kim ‘Althea’ Gordon; american musician, singer-songwriter and artist.

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
~Samuel ‘Langhorne’ Clemens “Mark Twain”; american author, humorist and lecturer.
“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”
~Lafayette Ronald Hubbard; american author and founder of scientology.