Quotes Du Jour

"Hey - I'm gullible! I'll try anything - no matter how pointless, as long as I'm in on it first!"
- Evan Dorkin (b. 1965), U.S. cartoonist and writer: Scenester #1 in 'Tattooed Hate Boys!' from "Milk & Cheese's First Number Two #1", 1994.

�Men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into �the masses�. And where is the David who can slay this giant?�
- Lillian Smith (1897 � 1966), American author: prologue to �The Journey�, 1954.

�I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardness in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.�
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 � 1961), American author: interview in �Writers at Work�, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1963.

�Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master�s commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too �personal� style.�
- W. H. Auden (1907 � 1973), Anglo-American poet: �The Dyer�s Hand�, 1962.