Michael McClure quotes

“When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.”
-- Michael McClure

Source : Michael McClure (1993). “Lighting the corners: on art, nature, and the visionary : essays and interviews”, University of New Mexico Press

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“We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.”
-- Michael McClure

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“Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.”
-- Michael McClure

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“My mind is lovely as a spruce, and I and those that love me make it mine.”
-- Michael McClure

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“When you co-operate with an injustice, then a little bit of your spirit dies.”
-- Michael McClure

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“We are all trying to get the exact style of ouuselves.”
-- Michael McClure

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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“Fame is a very strange animal.”

“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!”

“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”

“Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.”

“Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.”

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey

“She who means no mischief does it all.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135