RUTH GORDON 1896-1985. “HAROLD AND MAUDE”
TO BE SOMEBODY YOU MUST LAST.
NEVER GIVE UP. AND NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FACE THE FACTS.
discussing HOW OLD YOUR ARE is the temple of boredom.
SO EASY TO FALL IN A RUT, ISN’T IT? WHY SHOULD RUTS BE SO COMFORTABLE AND SO UNPOPULAR?
IF I DON’T MAKE IT TODAY, I’LL COME IN TOMORROW.
COURAGE IS VERY IMPORTANT. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
THE VERY BEST IMPROPMTU speeches are the ones written well in advance.
GRACE SLICK 1939–“THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE” “DREAMS”
I THINK it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.
THROUGH YOUR LIFE, most people peel away the junk that’s not useful, that’s superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.
I SAID I’D BE HONEST, I NEVER SAID I’D BE CONSISTANT.
I COLLECT stuffed animals and toy stores make me happy.
I’M BUSY communicating ideas . . . . I want you to know what I’m thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don’t fine.
WOODSTOCK is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn’t necessarily mean something is good. It just means it’s big.
WHEN YOU LEARN THAT A TRUTH IS A LIE, ANGER FOLLOWS.
I’M A COMMERCIAL ARTIST, BOTH IN MUSIC AND ART.
DEATH is like taking an intermission when you can’t come back. I like living and being around.
I DO WHAT I LOVE TO DO, WHAT I CHOOSE TO DO.
GOD is all over the place. And even if He isn’t, if its makes me feel good, why not?
FEED YOUR HEAD. FEED YOUR HEAD. FEED YOUR HEAD.
I’M VERY FOND OF DRUGS.
EZRA POUND 1885-1972—800 page epic poem “The Three Cantos”.
A SLAVE IS ONE who waits for someone to come and free him.
WAR in olden times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
IF A MAN isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
DEMOCRACY is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by jews.’
THE TECHNIQUE of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
REAL EDUCATION must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
GENIUS . . . is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
I HAVE NEVER KNOWN ANYONE WORTH A DAMN WHO WASN’T IRASCIBLE.
THE REAL TROUBLE with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
AMERICA IS A LUNATIC ASYLUM.
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
WHEN WORDS cease to cling to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
WHAT MATTERS is not the idea a man holds but the depth at which he holds it.
IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE ARTIST TO MAKE HUMANITY AWARE OF ITSELF.
WARS ARE MADE TO MAKE DEBT.
I DID NOT ENTER INTO SILENCE. SILENCE CAPTURED ME.
IN OUR TIME the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
GOOD WRITERS are those who keep their language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate; keep it clear.
WHY FIGHT FOR A FLAG WHEN YOU CAN BUY ONE FOR A NICKEL.
BE NOT CHEAP OR MEDIOCRE IN DESIRING.
DON’T BE BLINDED BY THE THEORISTS & A LYING PRESS.
THE TEMPLE IS HOLY BECAUSE IT IS NOT FOR SALE.
EITHER MOVE OR BE MOVED.
MAN IS an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
THE CONCEPT OF GENIUS as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.