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Goat Quotes

Like the goat, you’ll mourn for your beard.

…If you think that to grow a beard is to acquire wisdom, a goat is at once a complete Plato.

Posted 21 March 2008 † Yuletide § Words ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

William Faulkner on Art & The Impossible

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life…. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Posted 20 January 2008 † Yuletide § Aside § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Metal-Rules.com Quotage

This “look” is obviously a highly masculine one due to the fact that the human body is basically being draped in dead animal skin (and I suppose this might provide us male members of the species with a glimpse back at our primitive selves)…. Marlon Brando’s use of it in the 1950’s biker film, The Wild One catapulted him into superstar status and Elvis’ cool-as-hell, black leather ensemble played a huge part in making his famous ‘69 comeback so successful!!!

Posted 17 January 2008 † Yuletide § Aside ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Metal Quotage

Their plastic noise is anything but music to me…. Switch off your brain and make sounds that dehumanize.

Posted 17 January 2008 † Yuletide § Aside ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Quotes for Today

The problem is finding the correct organic shape and emotional shape for a piece…. You have to strip yourself of all your disguises, some of which you didn’t know you had.

Posted 11 January 2008 † Yuletide § Aside ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Responding to Kafka

Personally, this quote seems to be getting at a truth that many other writers have also quoted; that is, that writing is not the destination, or the final truth, it is a means of drilling through the layers of bullshit and all that, to get at what we really want to say, but don’t know it. The image of the author, standing on the surface of his own frozen sea, hacking away furiously, at times maniacally, is actually pretty hilarious.

Posted 10 January 2008 † Yuletide § Exercises § Reading ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: