#no

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#handed #me #nothing #ordeal #these

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#behind #horrifying #left #moment #more

I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#i #know #koufax #weakness

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#concealing #distinction #his #notable #revealing

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money; Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux; glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights; Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism; Fertility to Sterility; the spirit of Heroism to the spirit of Trade; the principle of Responsibility to Parliamentarism; the idea of Polarity of Man and Woman to Feminism; the idea of the individual task to the ideal of ‘happiness’; Discipline to Propaganda-compulsion; the higher unities of family, society, State to social atomism; Marriage to the Communistic ideal of free love; economic self-sufficiency to senseless trade as an end in itself; the inner imperative to Rationalism. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#authority #culture #duty #economics #equality

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#art #audience #because #care #claim

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. ↗

— Milos Forman

#afford #also #anything #brilliant #communist

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#beginning #continue #end #novel #other

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know. ↗

— Milos Forman

#committee #committees #control #controlled #everybody

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig. ↗

— Milos Forman

#czechs #doing #drowning #even #grabbing