"Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison"

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Source : Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

Jenny Holzer

#Sake Quotes #Slipping Quotes #Madness Quotes

“The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.”
“Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in todayâ€™s world itâ€™s the fuel that drags economy”
“Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.”

Source : Alice Notley (2007). “In the Pines”, p.57, Penguin
“Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.”
“Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.”
“There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people â€” by us and also by the enemy â€” but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.”

Source : "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.
“Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.”
“Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them”

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