“Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!”
~Paul Goodman; american author and public intellectual.
“I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me.”
~Chan Marshall “Cat Power”; american singer-songwriter and musician.
“Memory produces hope in the same way amnesia produces despair.”
~Walter Brueggeman; american scholar and theologian.
“The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.”
~Rebecca Solnit; american author.
“Experience by itself is not science.”
~Edmund Husserl; german philosopher who established Phenomenology.
“The only real elegance is in the mind, if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.”
~ Diana Vreeland; american magazine editor and fashion journalist.
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
~ Issac Asimov; american author and professor of biochemistry.
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
~ Dorothy Day; american journalist, social activist, anarchist and servant of god.
“Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.”
~ Ian Curtis; british singer-songwriter and musician.
“The main thing in life is survival. And survival is not just staying alive. It is also a constant effort to grow and to learn and to work.”
~ Vincent Price; american actor.