It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.
E.L. Doctorow
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
writing form
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
funny humor life death answer dying
Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self.
death self self-awareness salvation
The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.
separation-of-church-and-state jesus socrates socialism
I am telling you what I know -- words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
writing music words
Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
poetry
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
truth fairness balance satire ridicule bias
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.
writing
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes and ponds, the jell and slime of life shimmering in gravid expectation. Everywhere I looked, life sprang from something not life, insects unfolded from sacs on the surface of still waters and were instantly on prowl for their dinner, everything that came into being knew at once what to do and did it, unastonished that it was what it was, unimpressed by where it was, the great earth heaving up bloodied newborns from every pore, every cell, bearing the variousness of itself from every conceivable substance which it contained in itself, sprouting life that flew or waved in the wind or blew from the mountains or stuck to the damp black underside of rocks, or swam or suckled or bellowed or silently separated in two.
life animals vitality
It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
human existence
wealth money
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.
capitalism
Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
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