#ch

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. ↗

— David Bowie

#either #ethical #hard #humanists #immortal

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. ↗

— David Bowie

#artifice #artist #believe #changing #contemporaries

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#get #lost #part #taught #which

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#books #going #i #know #lasts

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way. ↗

— David Bowie

#artist #back #being #comes #i

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad! ↗

— David Bowie

#always #am #because #become #been

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking. ↗

— David Bowie

#i #negative #never #responded #thinking

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#chicago #day #every #every day #few

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#activity #comprises #every #journey #realize

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#classical #coherent #ending #enough #feel