"I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,"

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Source : John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan

John Berryman

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“In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back the Spring... He is the best of all possible audiences, the only Audience to see every scene, the Author who became a Character and heaped every shadow on Himself. The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood.”
“It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love, with having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.”
“Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it, be polite but firm, and just not take no for an answer.”
“Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.”
“Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.”
“Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.”

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