“All governments lie,
but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials
smoke the same hashish they give out.” – I.F. Stone
from “In a Time of Torment, 1961-1967” (1967), p. 317
Tag: quotes
David Bowie was an Artist
Dhead XXXVIII
(1995)
Arcylic and computer collage on canvas
25 x 20 cm
Self Portrait (Mustique)(2002)
Lithograph on Fabriano paper
24 x 19 cm
“My entire career, I’ve only really worked with the same subject matter. The trousers may change, but the actual words and subjects I’ve always chosen to write with are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety, all of the high points of one’s life.” – David Bowie
“…I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.” – Susan Sontag
INTERVIEWER
Do you think much about the audience for your books?
SONTAG
Don’t dare. Don’t want to. But, anyway, I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
Lack of political will = Corruption
Lack of political will = Corruption
“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”
“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”
~Susan Sontag
(9/10/1964)
“Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.”
“Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.”
Swift thought
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
– Jonathan Swift
“All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.” – I.F. Stone
“All governments lie,
but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials
smoke the same hashish they give out.” – I.F. Stone
from “In a Time of Torment, 1961-1967” (1967), p. 317
Alexander Pope
“Born but to die, and reas’ning but to err” -Alexander Pope
Swift thought
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
–Jonathan Swift
21st Century Theater 