"I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)"

-- Eve Babitz

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“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.”
“Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.”
“Politics is activity in relation to power”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.238, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
“I just admire a funny, confident, sassy woman and hopefully I'm that person.”
“Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.”
“I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.”
“I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.”
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”

Source : Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.464, Vintage

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