I write, I extend my hand; without my knowing it, this is already a prayer, I extend my hand to you so that you will exist because you do exist, beyond my fingers, your fingers, without my knowing it this is already a response, already I draw to my side the site for you, with […]
Bukowski – On Contentment
“contentment between agonies is the elixir of existence”
– Charles Bukowski [1985] in Pig In a Pamphlet #12, Introduction by Harry Calhoun
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” — Art of Quotation
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” – Floyd Dell, novelist, editor, playwright, poet
via “Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” — Art of Quotation
In Memory: “If you are a writer, you have to be someone who can be on your own. You can sit in a room for eight hours, and…” — Art of Quotation
“If you are a writer, you have to be someone who can be on your own. You can sit in a room for eight hours, and at the end of it you will have done something.”
– Stephen Jeffreys, 1950-2018, British, playwright
Naked Cities Note [MN]: The Guardian’s Obituary for Stephen Jeffreys can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/sep/18/stephen-jeffreys-obituary
Aldous Huxley – On Creativity, Proficiency and Results
“The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity.”
– Aldous Huxley, as quoted by Mark Manson in: markmanson.net/why-the-best-things-in-life-are-all-backwards
Bukowski Reads Bukowksi
The gods have been good to me… they really have…
– Charles Bukowski from an Interview in Bukowski Reads Bukowski
“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.” — Art of Quotation
“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.”
– Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss, historian
via “The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.” — Art of Quotation
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not…” — Art of Quotation
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them?” – Pablo Picasso, Spanish, painter, sculptor, printmaker, draftsman
via “Everyone wants to understand art. Why not…” — Art of Quotation
Georges Perec – On Knowing the World
What can we know of the world? What quantity of space can our eyes hope to take in between our birth and our death? How many square centimeters of planet earth will the soles of our shoes have touched?
– Georges Perec in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
William S. Burroughs – On The Third Mind
No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible force which may be likened to a third mind…
– William S. Burroughs on The Third Mind
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