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Power Quote: Luna Miguel

It’s impossible to support today the idea of the author as a divine entity… If we want people to approach poetry, it would be better to delete the myths.

Luna Miguel

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September 29th, 2010 / 9:41 pm

Power Quote: Keanu Reeves

via The 12 Most Depressing Keanu Reeves Quotes

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September 9th, 2010 / 8:59 pm

Power Quote: The Comb Over

Now that even professional athletes are wearing mohawks, I’m pretty sure the only transgressive hairstyle is the comb over.

—My buddy Jordan

Maybe we should all start writing melodrama. Should we? Would that be the most transgressive choice we could make?

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Wait, are we transgressive? Are we trying to transgress now? I can’t remember.

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Bob Ross, Avant-garde Artist.

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April 26th, 2010 / 8:18 pm

Power Quote: John Berryman

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

—John Berryman, October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972

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April 16th, 2010 / 2:18 pm

Power Quote Quartet

You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes. — Larry David

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. — Helen Keller

I’m into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it. — Liam Gallagher

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery. — James Joyce

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April 9th, 2010 / 2:59 pm

Power Quote: Gerhard Richter

“I don’t want to be a personality or to have an ideology. I see no sense in doing anything different. I never do see any sense. I think that one always does what is being done anyway (even when making something new), and that one is always making something new. To have an ideology means having laws and guidelines; it means killing those who have different laws and guidelines. What is the good of that?”

from The Daily Practice of Painting by Gerhard Richter

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March 12th, 2010 / 1:50 am

Power Quote: “The Man”

People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they turn themselves into beasts; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves.
— Montaigne, Essays (1580)

I smiled when I read “the man,” because it was written so long ago. Seems like “the man” has been bringing us down since the 16th century, the most current manifestation being Comcast (host of my internet, cable, and landline) without whom I would only exist in vivo, and how lame is that?

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March 9th, 2010 / 4:09 pm

Power Quote: Kafka on writing

“It is, in fact, an intercourse with ghosts, and not only with the ghost of the recipient but also with one’s own ghost which develops between the lines of the letter one is writing and even more so in a series of letters where one letter corroborates the other and can refer to it as a witness.”

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena

I suspect by “letters” he means, generically, the written word, though he could also be referring to letters, the medium with which he is writing to Milena — or, and this is my fancy, he could mean the letters which make up words themselves, thus dramatically altering exactly what is “[in]between the lines” and their respective “corroborations,” a funny yet telling invocation which hints at some complicity, as if writing is a shameful lie. His “intercourse with ghosts,” short of necrophilia, simply tells of a man who replaced love with words. (One should see desire in the pulp of paper.) Think about Kafka long enough, and you enter a dark tunnel. Don’t think about him, and your world too perfect, untouched.

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February 18th, 2010 / 12:52 pm

POWER QUOTE: THE INTELLECTUAL HEDONIST

young salter: fighter pilot and ladies' man. what's your day job?

There is the knowledge of the senses that includes carnal happiness, and a greater knowledge that comes from intellect and reason. In the life we admire, one succeeds the other but does not dislodge it.

–James Salter, There and Then

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January 28th, 2010 / 12:39 pm

Power Quote: Precritical Compulsion

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— Ovskum, an Italian singer and guitarist, was quoted in one of the symposium’s lectures as saying, “my music does not come from a philosophy but from a precritical compulsion” —

If you can say that without irony, I’m pretty sure you win.

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December 15th, 2009 / 9:24 pm