A Leak In The Safe

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Organ Sensation as a Tool of Natural Research: Quote Bag

The Tattling Harlot: A Dialogue Between Bess O’Bedlam and her Brother Tom

We are the apes who dreamed and woke still dreaming.

– Kathryn Morton

Looked upon by society as a bankrupt, I was born again in another world where no one could follow me. Things that would previously have lacked significance now attracted my attention. The dreams I had at night assumed the guise of prophecies. I thought of myself as one of the dead, passing my life in another sphere.

– August Strindberg

Ah, sir I was mad and violent. I thought to fight my way with my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.

– Samuel Johnson

I was going to grow up to walk in sleet in fields; didn’t know it then.

– Jack Kerouac

dada was there before dada was there.

– Hans Arp

I don’t know how radical you are, or how radical I am. I am certainly not radical enough. One can never be radical enough; that is, one must always be as radical as reality itself.

– V. I. Lenin

Reality can only partially be attacked by logic.

– Fredrich Durrenmatt

Instead, the observer who stands before a disciplined and well-proportioned Mondrian or an apparently uncontrolled Kandinsky feels that he is himself being judged by some enigmatic intelligence, some representative of a world of values to which he was a stranger. In graphic art, perceptions too radical for overt expression are embodied in non-representational elements; in modern literature they are expressed through deviations from the conventional idiom.

– Jacob Korg

The human tongue is like a cracked cauldron on which we beat out tunes to set a bear dancing when we would make the stars weep with our melodies.

– Gustave Flaubert

Those who would still be called artists, and who in advanced civilizations have not lost contact with natural sources and are the sole performers and prophets os a speech in which, periodically, the world must come to quench its thirst.

– Artaud

To understand and judge a society, one has to penetrate its basic structure to the human bond upon which it is built; this undoubtedly depends on legal relations, but also upon forms of labor, ways of loving, living and dying.

– Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I’m interested in women’s arguments with men, what else is there? The rest doesn’t amount to a row of monkeys.

– Jane Bowles

The impulse of her poetry is not confessional but visionary.

– M. D. Uroff

The emblem of Expressionism is existence; the existence of man, and at the same time the existence of the image.

– Giuseppe Gott

The essential character of life is consciousness of vision.

– Oskar Kokoschka

When imagination begins to skid out of control, so do events.

– General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

To put it succinctly: instead of identifying with the characters, the audience should be educated to be astonished at the circumstances under which they can function.

– Walter Benjamin

The poet’s function used to be to write good poetry, now it’s to make bad jokes.

– James Agnew

It is integrity which separates art from non-art.

– Annie Dillard

Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation!

– Buzz Aldrin

When thy mind leaves its dark forest of delusion, thou shalt go beyond the scriptures of times past and those still to come.

– Bhagavad Gita

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The Insect at the Home of a Mutual Friend : QUOTEBAG

Right now we’d like to dedicate this to everybody here with hearts, any kind of hearts, and ears – it goes something like this here…

– Jimi Hendrix

At least I am speaking to someone who understands me, and not to one of the cabbages in whose midst I have been vegetating since morning.

– Laclos

I don’t think I’d ever plan anything out carefully, and certainly not that. If I went to the devil it would be because I wanted to, or because it’s a good drug, or because I don’t give a damn for my idiotic body of a woman anyway.

He’s only trying to be modern and brutal and all that, poor dear. Don’t mind him.

– Jean Rhys

Observe her carefully when she is sitting alone, thinking; why she looks like one foredestined to everything accursed and damnable in the world.

– Dostoevsky

This warped, decadent youth was once an angelic child.

– August Strindberg

"What?" said Mrs. Reed under her breath: her usually cold composed grey eye became troubled with a look of fear: she took her hand from my arm and looked at me as if she really did not know if I were child or fiend.

– Charlotte Bronte

I myself have a horror of the commonplace, and I dream only of strange adventures, strong passions, delirious ecstasies, bizarre and difficult situations, and I have to find pure and simple happiness that way, and, try as I may, I haven’t been able to find another.

– Theophile Gautier

Delirium passes the time, but it’s ticklish when anyone’s around.

– Celine

"But if Mr. Holgrave is a lawless person!" remonstrated Phoebe, a part of whose essence it was to keep within the limits of law.

"Oh!" said Hepzibah, carelessly – for, formal as she was, still in her life experience, she had gnashed her teeth against human law, "I suppose he has a law of his own!"

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was in a fair way to do himself lasting harm, floundering between worlds passed and worlds coming, which had a habit of crushing men who stayed too long at the point of contact.

– Henry Adams

He startles those who do not like to be startled, and does not compose those who wish to be composed.

– Walter Bageliot

Such is the unhappy age in which we live that not even the strangest aberrations are a cure for boredom.

– Stendhal

Until this time his career could be summed up as that of a moderately independent artist with a conservative background, who had offended a few dogmatic academicians, but from 1885 on he offended nearly everyone, even some of his closest associates.

– John David Farmer

He was regarded as a true visionary artist, or one who portrays through art his personal visions of the "divine light" and out of body experiences of "union with the Mother Goddess" i.e. sexual intercourse with demons.

– Barbara Aho

The fact is that modern artists are gnostics and practice things that the priests think are long forgotten; perhaps even commit sins that are no longer thought possible.

What Nietzsche calls "decadence" and Marx calls the "ideological superstructure" is here simply called the state university.

– Hugo Ball

Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened by fact, by history, by process, by necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different; and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness.

– Richard Wright