"Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world."

-- Chris Kraus

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.”
“You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016
“I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.”
“And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.”
“They say that generally, rulers - dictators - tend to be short, like me. It gives them an inferiority complex; when they were kids, they wanted to be big and to crush the small, but they were small themselves. Lenin was short, Stalin was short, Putin...”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.”
“People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.”

Source : "Romancing With Stone". Interview with Jessica Boden, www.newyou.com. March 14, 2014.
“Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.”

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