"They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latterâ€™s constant debasement."

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Source : Gilbert Sorrentino (1973). “Splendide-Hotel: Meditation on Rimbaud”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

Gilbert Sorrentino

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Desire Quotes

“A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.”
“No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 188), 1985.
“There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.”
“The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.”
“As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?”
“Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?”
“I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.”
“What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for youâ€” It takes life to love Life.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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