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“There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ***** and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.”
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“You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.”
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“You have to see my show to believe that Im the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.”
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“My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom”
Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.41, University of Chicago Press
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“Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?”
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“Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.”
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“... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.”
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“Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.”
Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.171, Anchor
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“The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.”
Source : C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.116, Penguin UK
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“Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson”
