"Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven."

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Dennis Oppenheim

#Heaven Quotes #Upside Down Quotes #Hell Quotes

“self-interest usually brings injustice with it.”
“Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".”
“Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmotherâ€™s bureau. I wasnâ€™t just the madwoman in the attic â€” I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.”
“I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.”
“People without hope not only donâ€™t write novels, but what is more to the point, they donâ€™t read them. They donâ€™t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.”
“I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.”
“Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.”
“The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. â€¦ Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.”

Source : Cid Corman (1975). “The Gist of Origin, 1951-1971: an anthology”

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