237 quotes found
“He has the etiquette of a frog”
“Coercion. The unpardonable crime.”
“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
“Love is always the right decision.”
“All work is the avoidance of harder work.”
“Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.”
“I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.”
“We were like two atoms in one molecule, hydrogen and oxygen. Both explosive alone, but the source of everything when we came together.”
“You can't control who your family is. I know about that. You can only pick good friends and maybe that's a better family.”
“I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.”
“The heart, I think, which is the home of all things rhythmic, is where learned poems go to live.”
“The conversation progressed, bumper-car style, to a very heated discussion about death and the survival of the soul. It amazes me that we, as a species, can argue so fervently over something that i...”
“Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.”
“The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surreal...”
“The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points to the gaps and inadequacies of realism, but does not questi...”
“Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.”
“You're not Forsaken. You're Chosen for Purpose.”
“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermedia...”
“By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathe...”
“You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be ...”
“[On setting all clocks at varying times in advance...]A selfless gesture on my part which ensures I am never late, but really only means that I spend time waiting not only for people who are late b...”
“After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.”
“To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.”
“Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.”
“I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen”
