What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.
Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.
Opinion is the death of knowledge.
If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.
Love is all there's time for.
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.
Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.
it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.
Longing is all that lasts.
writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.
Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.
I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.
TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.
married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.
like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.
if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.
TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.
It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.
We do what we can. The results are none of our business.
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