"Specificity is the soul of narrative."

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Source : John Hodgman (2017). “Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches”, p.58, Penguin

John Hodgman

#Soul Quotes #Narrative Quotes #Specificity Quotes

“Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.”
“I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.”
“The sort of sweeping parochial espionage and attempts to extract information from all sorts of institutions are well documented, but I think in this context there's a danger of oversimplifying and seeing that sector of cyber as a one-way street.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.”
“In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.”
“In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.”
“I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.”

Source : "Daredevil Turned Artist Shows Work In Exhibition 'Bam Margera & Friends'" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2012.
“The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.”

Source : Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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