"I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd even think about font as an aspect of text, you know, how something looks on a page. A lot of this is the product of a very solitary existence, it's like, language, I mean, you know. A lot of time spent alone in the creation of all of this stuff."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Richard Meltzer

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage
“No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult”
“Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.”
“The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.”
“There are times we spent money when we shouldn't, the choices we make define the results we get”
“I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.”
“Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.”
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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