Richard McKenna quotes

“Being dead is being weak and walled off.”
-- Richard McKenna

Source : Richard McKenna (1973). “Casey Agonistes: And Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

#Weak Quotes

“My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.”
-- Richard McKenna

Source : Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.”
-- Richard McKenna

Source : Richard McKenna (1973). “Casey Agonistes: And Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

#Book Quotes

“The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.”
-- Richard McKenna

Source : Richard McKenna (2010). “The Sand Pebbles”, p.13, RosettaBooks

#Machines Quotes #Way Quotes #Taking Things For Granted Quotes

“Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.”
-- Richard McKenna

Source : Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

#Art Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Men Quotes

“No excuses; those were just weak.”

“A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)”

“Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.”

“Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?”

“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”

“Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.”

“But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.”

“Hatred - The anger of the weak.”

Source : Alphonse Daudet, George Burnham Ives, Jane Minot Sedgwick, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Olive Edward Palmer (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”

“Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.”

“willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.”