"There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity."

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Source : FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012

Katherine Dunn

#Brain Quotes #Behaviour Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes

“Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.”
“If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?”
“Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive.”
“Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes out of some sense of longing. It could be called dissatisfaction; it could be called distance. There are many kinds of wanting to get closer to something else, whether that is an idea, a body, a place. Longing is also one of the conditions people approach reading, visual art, or music with - it's to satisfy that sense of longing. It's part of my job, on some level, to grapple with that notion.”
“Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.”
“I think that if there was one mistake that I took away, it would affect the man that I am today.”
“This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.”
“To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.”

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