#k

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#faulkner #incredible #light #living #living room

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#asked #faulkner #great #had #know

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#because #could #france #him #i

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#cd-rom #check #databases #everyone #existing

You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#books #cd-rom #come #help #information

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#art #canvas #comes #fact #go

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#kafka #still #thought #writer

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#between #books #calls #gray #gray area

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#bad #being #despite #fact #ginsberg

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#begun #capable #century #characterised #development