Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To "Why am I here?" To uselessness. It's the streami...ng reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[A] Dada exhibition. Another one! What's the matter with everyone wanting to make a museum piece out of Dada? Dada was a bomb ... ...can you imagine anyone, around half a century after a bomb explodes, wanting to collect the pieces, sticking it together and displaying it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I move my thin legs into your office and we work over the cadaver of my soul.... We make a stage set out of my past and stuff painted puppets into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it i...s presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by any...thing. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Clear? Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and get me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail... out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A daughter of Eve ... had better be fifty leagues off--or in her warm bed--or playing with a case-knife--or any thing you please--...than make a man the object of her attention, when the house and all the furniture is her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who will join in the march to the Rocky Mountains with me, a sort of high-pressure-double-cylinder-go-it-ahead-forty-wildcats- tea...rin' sort of a feller?... Git out of this warming-pan, ye holly-hocks, and go out to the West where you may be seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »