192 quotes found
“They knew that no one heard, that bloodless people cannot be made to bleed. So they blew what everyone had heard before, they reassured everyone that nothing terrible was happening.”
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
“All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”
“Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.”
“Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.”
“Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”
“This world is white no longer and it will never be white again.”
“We take our shape it is true within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.”
“Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New York — ’He was smiling. I stopped.‘What do you feel in New York?’ he asked...”
“It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.”
