"Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too."

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Source : Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative qualities of actual things”, Small PressDistribution

Gilbert Sorrentino

#Art Quotes #World Quotes #Predator Quotes

“By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.”
“Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.”
“I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.”
“The moon is bleached as white as wool, And just dropping under; Every star is gone but three, And they hang far asunder,-- There's a sea-ghost all in gray, A tall shape of wonder!”
“Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.”
“The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.”
“I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.”

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