"In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time."

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Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

Al Alvarez

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“in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.”
“You have to tap into the child in you. If you can get to that innocent place, then you're golden. That was the subconscious goal for me.”

Source : "Ken Marino Talks BAD MILO!, Milo’s Tender Puppet Eyes, VERONICA MARS Movie, and EASTBOUND & DOWN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2013.
“The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.”
“So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.”
“I was a geek in high school.”
“Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.”
“I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.”
“In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.”

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