tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22358135950383821702024-02-08T07:39:30.801-08:00Read These QuotationsBecause Some of Them Are CoolMadtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-22460011804518859662008-01-06T13:33:00.000-08:002008-01-06T13:34:18.146-08:00David MilchI've never been on any road that I didn't find interesting.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-28535949801248412612007-12-24T01:03:00.001-08:002007-12-24T01:03:35.368-08:00Raymond CarverI made a wasteland of everything I touched.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-39452817848951361942007-12-04T19:05:00.000-08:002007-12-04T19:06:52.735-08:00Peter EverwineLove is the ground note; we cannot do<br />without it or the sorrow of its changes.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-23200822951137758522007-10-28T23:03:00.000-07:002007-10-28T23:04:12.735-07:00Albert CamusA man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-88652572538789908202007-09-30T20:10:00.001-07:002007-09-30T20:10:49.949-07:00Stanley KunitzWhat other morality has the artist but to endure? The only ones who survive, I think, beyond the equally destructive temptations of self-praise and self-pity, are those whose discontent is with themselves. The fiercest hearts are in love with a wild perfection.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-66625672545012985792007-09-10T21:05:00.002-07:002007-09-16T20:43:14.632-07:00Cormac McCarthyAll things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-41117503472407513632007-09-10T21:05:00.001-07:002007-09-10T21:05:35.871-07:00Graham GreeneOne has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-70152110791148330332007-09-10T21:04:00.001-07:002007-09-10T21:04:25.327-07:00Edmund BurkeAll that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-65623104008581853632007-09-10T21:03:00.001-07:002007-09-10T21:03:59.524-07:00SophoclesIt is the dead<br />Not the living who make the longest demands<br />We die foreverMadtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-15489785500519126492007-09-10T21:01:00.000-07:002007-09-10T21:03:07.559-07:00Kurt VonnegutThere's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-72035518772313323292007-09-10T21:00:00.002-07:002007-09-10T21:01:23.847-07:00Paul ValérySometimes something wants to be said, sometimes a way of saying wants to be used.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-35254160677494762007-09-10T21:00:00.001-07:002007-09-10T21:00:34.252-07:00Clive JamesA man looking for oblivion should be allowed to have it.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-35226368894980833842007-09-10T20:59:00.002-07:002007-09-10T21:00:10.374-07:00Jim HarrisonWhat cannot be said will get wept.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-53099854555610992832007-09-10T20:59:00.001-07:002007-09-10T20:59:45.282-07:00Thomas HardyLife may be sad past saying...Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-25151823652798162662007-09-10T20:58:00.000-07:002007-09-10T20:59:16.654-07:00Sonny SharrockI've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it's possible.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-31782177897289219342007-09-10T20:57:00.000-07:002007-09-10T20:58:30.859-07:00Dante AlighieriIn the middle of the journey of our life<br />I found myself in a dark wood,<br />For I had lost the right path.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-71222535483778541512007-09-10T20:56:00.000-07:002007-09-10T20:57:39.157-07:00John Blair, "Cicada"Yes, the first knowledge that counts is that everything stops.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-43880260528110644362007-09-10T20:55:00.000-07:002007-09-10T20:56:02.529-07:00Philip LarkinAn only life can take so long to climb<br />Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may neverMadtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-68226038832947224122007-09-10T20:54:00.001-07:002007-09-10T20:55:15.616-07:00W.H. AudenAbout suffering they were never wrong,<br />The Old Masters; how well, they understood<br />Its human position; how it takes place<br />While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;<br /><br />Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-38493110114142741772007-09-10T20:53:00.000-07:002007-09-10T20:54:09.689-07:00Jorge Luis BorgesI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-85650165139538774792007-09-10T20:52:00.000-07:002007-09-10T20:53:47.090-07:00Henri PoincaréThought is only a flash in the middle of a long night, but the flash that means everything.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-35378722489809835302007-09-10T20:51:00.002-07:002007-09-10T20:52:27.004-07:00John Stuart MillA person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-34758253658011303192007-09-10T20:51:00.001-07:002007-09-10T20:51:54.955-07:00William ShakespeareWhy should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,<br />And thou no breath at all?Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-233231170342192682007-09-10T20:50:00.000-07:002007-09-10T20:51:23.378-07:00Mario SavioThere is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235813595038382170.post-37151069055159805092007-09-10T20:48:00.002-07:002007-09-10T20:50:08.664-07:00Elvin JonesYou gotta be willin’ to die with the motherfucker.Madtownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561869297201217293noreply@blogger.com0