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Gerald Stanley Lee

"I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another."

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”

Gerald Stanley Lee

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“I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33â€, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.”
“If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.”
“I'm fascinated that people drawn to cults want to know what to do. And people want to know what to think. And people want to know how to feel. Not just what to feel but how to feel.”
“Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.”
“If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.”
“You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do.”

Source : "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.
“Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.”
“As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.”

Source : "Raul Castro Says Cuba Open to Normalized Relations With U.S". www.foxnews.com. August 18, 2006.

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