"I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [â€¦] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption."

--

Source : Preface to the second edition of "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" by Kenneth Rexroth, 1953.

Kenneth Rexroth

#Lying Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.”
“This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.”
“The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.”

Source : Louis Zamperini, David Rensin (2009). “Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II”, p.17, Harper Collins
“People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.”
“All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.”
“Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.”
“I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.”
“My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.”

You may also like: