quotes about Malcontent

“No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.”

“A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

“It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song”

“Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews”

“One writes to teach, to move or to delight.”

“We're living in a literary age, at least in America, that is marked by a sense of distance, a coolness, in all senses of that word. To be too obviously, unapologetically emotional is to risk being considered foolish, or at the very least not serious.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

“I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.”

“I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.”

“Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]”