Andrei Codrescu famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A.M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Night #New Orleans #Air
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Real #Learning #Technology
It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Girl #Years #Language
Only the poor can create art.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Art #Poor
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Real #Book #Grandmother
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Falling In Love #Thinking #New Orleans
In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Past
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Land #Evil #Peasants
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Jobs #Gold #Emotion
Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Nostalgia #Share #Masochism
The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Believe #Atheism #World

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