April 2009
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“We need to forget what we think we are in order to become who we really are.”
– The Zahir
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“I am looking for a poem that says Everything
so I don’t have to write...”
– Tukaram
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“Am I here, or am I there? Or is the true self neither this nor that but...”
– Virginia Woolf (via psychotherapy & sometimesagreatnotion)
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“Look at any inspired painting. It’s like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state...”
– Philip Guston (via Slow Muse)
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“Art is not self expression but self alteration.”
– John Cage (via Slow Muse)
“We learned from Oriental thought that those divine influences are, in fact, the...”
– John Cage (via Slow Muse)
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“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck (via unsolvedmysteries & smut-to-go)
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“It’s all perfect, and it all stinks. The conscious being lives simultaneously...”
– Ram Dass (via divinemissem & theworldpulse)
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“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.”
– Luis Bunuel, from helladvisor, hannahisdead, extravagantdelight & acidreams)
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“Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air;...”
– Virginia Woolf (via lovelessramblings, unicornology & sarahsaturday)
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“If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having.”
– Henry Miller, from psychotherapy, thegshmee & reckon)
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“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets...”
– Hafiz (via pleasedontsqueezetheshaman)
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“I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, from thelastsemester, suzywire & poorlittlerichboy
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“It was one of those perfect autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory...”
– P.D. James
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“Something my father remembered the composer John Cage saying to him during the...”
– Musa Meyer, “My Father, Philip Guston” from denisedespirito
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“I for one am afraid that our … culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the...”
– Wilson, E.G. (2008). Against happiness: in praise of melancholy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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“His struggle with words was usually painful and this for two reasons. One was...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”
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“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man...”
– William James
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“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet,...”
– Plotinus
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“the dirty facades, the nameless crowds, the unremitting noise, the packed...”
– Haruki Murakami, “The Elephant Vanishes,” from paperbackgirl)
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The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction no. 178
AUSTER: I’ve always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil—especially for corrections. If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body, and then you dig the words into the page. Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It’s a physical experience.
INTERVIEWER: And you write in notebooks. Not legal pads or loose sheets of paper.
AUSTER: Yes, always in notebooks. And I have a particular fetish for notebooks with qaudrille lines, the little squares.
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“You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a...”
– Herman Hesse, from psychotherapy
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Mid Day Rain - Welcome to the Rain from Vinyl,...
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“Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to...”
– Aristotle, from psychotherapy, missworld, thresca & reckon
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“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed...”
– Lewis Carroll, from merricat, tinyparcels & longlivethequeen
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