“A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.”
“Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.”
“There are only
two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers.”
“Conflict occurs
when two pasts step
on the toes of the present.”
“To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.”
“Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.”
“I need a whole other life not to let this one go to waste.”
“I have inflammation of the imagination.”
“Before you are fully aware of anything else, you are aware whether you are awakening in your own bed.”
“The point is: his life was not centered around the place where he lived. His house was just one of many stopping places in a restless, unmoored existence, and this lack of center had the effect of turning him into a perpetual outsider, a tourist of his own life. You never had the feeling that he could be located.”
“Do what you are afraid to do.”
“I can wade Grief --
Whole Pools of it --
I'm used to that --
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet --
And I tip -- drunken --
Let no Pebble -- smile --
'Twas the New Liquor --
That was all!”
“Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].”
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