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Essential Quotes (page 18)

The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished. Henry Miller
Love, love, love? all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness. Germaine Greer
I believe I essentially remain what I have always been--a narrator, but one with extremely pressing personal needs. I want to introduce, I want to describe, I want to distribute mementos, amulets, I want to break out my wallet and pass around snapshots, I want to follow my nose. In this mood I don't dare go anywhere near the shortstory form. It eats up little fat undetatched writers like me. J. D. Salinger
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is..."
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Samuel Beckett quote: "The essential doesn't change."
The essential doesn't change. Samuel Beckett
Nick Cave quote: "I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to..."
I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. Nick Cave
Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas? the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code? but because the idiom of life is always changing William F. Buckley, Jr.
The thing about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, the thing that was so profound to me that summer—and yet also, like most things, so very simple—was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. How there was no escape or denial. No numbing it down with a martini or covering it up with a roll in the hay. As I clung to the chaparral that day, attempting to patch up my bleeding finger, terrified by every sound that the bull was coming back, I considered my... Cheryl Strayed
Donna Tartt quote: "In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but..."
In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. Donna Tartt
Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way. Stephen King
Anthony Burgess quote: "the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot..."
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition. Martin Heidegger
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the..."
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential? I know it. Yevgeny Zamyatin
I got to a state where phrases like "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" filled me with a kind of suppressed indignation, because they stood for the big sin of Platonism: the reduction of all reality to the level of pure abstraction, as if concrete, individual substances had no essential reality of their own, but were only shadows of some remote, universal, ideal essence filed away in a big card-index somewhere in heaven, while the demi-urges milled around the Logos piping their excitement... Thomas Merton
George Washington chopped down the tree, and then he threw away the money. Do you understand? He was telling us an essential truth. Namely, that money doesn't grow on trees. This is what made our country great, Peter. Now George Washington's picture is on every dollar bill. There is an important lesson to be learned from all this. Paul Auster

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