All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
From D. H. Lawrence
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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