“The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 226 of 303
“It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.”
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.”
“All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.”
“The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.”
“A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.”
“Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said”
“The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.”
“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”
“There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.”
“One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.”
“My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.”
“There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.”
“Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.”
“Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.”
“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”
“Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.”
“When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.”
“The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.”
“There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.”