Wednesday, June 04, 2003
�The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.�
- Gaston Bachelard (1884 � 1962), French scientist, philosopher and literary theorist: �The Poetics of Reverie�, 1960, translated 1969.
�There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.�
- Jane Jacobs (b. 1916), American author: introduction to �The Death and Life of Great American Cities�, 1961.
�The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.�
- Herb Caen (b. 1916), American columnist and author: in the �San Francisco Chronicle�, July 20, 1981.
�The real problem between the sexes is that for men, sex is a gender-underliner, they need it for their egos. We don�t need sex to make us feel we are the person we need to be.�
- Carol Clewlow (b. 1947), British novelist: interview in �The Observer�, (London), Feb 19, 1989.
- Gaston Bachelard (1884 � 1962), French scientist, philosopher and literary theorist: �The Poetics of Reverie�, 1960, translated 1969.
�There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.�
- Jane Jacobs (b. 1916), American author: introduction to �The Death and Life of Great American Cities�, 1961.
�The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.�
- Herb Caen (b. 1916), American columnist and author: in the �San Francisco Chronicle�, July 20, 1981.
�The real problem between the sexes is that for men, sex is a gender-underliner, they need it for their egos. We don�t need sex to make us feel we are the person we need to be.�
- Carol Clewlow (b. 1947), British novelist: interview in �The Observer�, (London), Feb 19, 1989.
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