"Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk."

-- Jackson Beck

#Art Quotes #Drunk Quotes #Silence Quotes

“When do you feel most loved? Are you willing to be loved today? Self-love is the magnet that attracts deep and profound expressions of love from others”
“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.”
“I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much of Fernando Pessoa's work. I get restless for a new kind of influence. The books I've translated are books I want to learn from as a writer, to be intoxicated by. And translation is an act of writing in itself. It's an act of recreation - of a writer's cadence and tone and everything that distinguishes the voice in the book.”

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“I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.”
“Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag”
“I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.”
“First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.”
“What was once your pain, will be your home.”

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