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The writer’s sole business today is to be a laconic witness to the death of man.

– Nathan Scott

Kafka knows two things – that there is no god and there must be a god.

– Erick Heller

From the discovery of that necessity which inevitably reduces man to nothing, we have shifted to the scornful contemplation of that nothing which is existence itself.

– Michael Foucault

O Generation, Keep on Working!

– Allen Ginsberg

My brain was as if lacerated or disjointed, and sown with the seeds of some poisonous weed, which had to be raked up before it began to take root. And when I came home to my loneliness, with its silence, I regained my own self, wrapped in my own mental and intellectual atmosphere. In this I felt as much at home as one does in a well-fitting garment, and I sank into an annihilating sleep, liberated from desires, yearnings and will-power.

– until at last I felt the great satisfaction of hearing the silence and of listening to the new voices that are to be heard in it.

– August Strindberg

…the movement was toward myth, towards a revival of the cultic, the mystical, the sacrificial, the prophetic, the sacramental, and the universally significant. In short, towards fiction.

– Paul Fussell

True knowledge is experimental and the poet knows this intimately.

– Wallace Fowlie

He had been given insight to the most concrete, scientific sort of problem through what amounted to an essentially psychotic hallucination.

– Craig Holden

With Eskimo chain

I’ve tattered my brain

– Syd Barrett

Cornell began and ended with his dream, and his dream, as he found confirmed by Freud, was always in an unfinished state.

– Dore Ashtom

has gone, as Beckett was among the first to recognize – the only real possibility that remains to us is depth. Down we must go, with Kafka down in the burrow, out of the big world and into the dark underground of our selves.

– John Banville

I add this to be on the safe side. These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are or if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not here, but elsewhere. But I am here.

– Samuel Beckett

Imagination rules the world.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

That was the day I had first looked into a mirror and discovered a bitter, demented clown.

– John Franklin Bardin

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

– Sigmund Freud

That cold tendency, between instinct and intellect, which made me pry with a speculative interest into people’s passions and impulses, appeared to have gone far towards unhumanizing my heart.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every good artist paints what he is.

– Jackson Pollock

Written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the Great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.

– Samuel Johnson