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“If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.”
Source : Sherwood Anderson (1924). “A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue”, p.332, University of Michigan Press
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“There's going to be a new gem in Hollywood, it's called Agron”
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“Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with ... Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. ... The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.”
Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, pp. 151-152, 1927.
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“There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.”
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“Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.”
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“Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.”
Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.45, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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“I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.”
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“Learn all the rules... then break them.”
Source : "Lea's Book of Rules for the World". Book by Lea DeLaria, 2000.
