"When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery."

-- Djuna Barnes

#Boston Quotes #Color Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.”
“I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.”
“Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.”
“The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using â€˜filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.â€™ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.”

Source : Nicole Brossard, Larry Shouldice, Patricia Claxton (2003). “The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress”, p.255, Coach House Books
“Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”
“Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.”
“I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.”
“Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.”

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