Andrei Codrescu Quotes

• There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Night, New Orleans, Air

  "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.

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• The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Real, Learning, Technology

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• How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Falling In Love, Thinking, New Orleans

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• The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Land, Evil, Peasants

  Andrei Codrescu (2009). “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess”, p.139, Princeton University Press

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• There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Idiot, Guides, Needed

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• Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Nostalgia, Share, Masochism

  Andrei Codrescu (2006). “New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City”, p.195, Algonquin Books

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• The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Ghouls, People, Zombie

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• Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Sarcastic, Real, Book

  Andrei Codrescu (1989). “Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Only the poor can create art.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Art, Poor

  Speech at a public forum held at the Los Angeles Public Library, April 28, 2010.

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• These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Spring, Intelligent, Lovely

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• The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'

  Andrei Codrescu

  Real, Nice, Thinking

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• It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Jobs, Gold, Emotion

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• In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Past, Collages

  Andrei Codrescu (2009). “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Girl, Years, Language

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• The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Believe, Atheism, World

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