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“However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.”
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“A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.”
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“Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.”
Source : Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.227, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.”
Source : Andrei Codrescu (2009). “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess”, p.7, Princeton University Press
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“The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.”
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“Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.”
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“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”
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“Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.”
