June 2012
15 posts
“Beauty is enhanced by unashamed irregularities; magnificence by a façade of blunder.”
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Art is a one-sided conversation with the unobserved.”
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“So this is the fact - most of us are slightly off balance, or more, and it’s no use blaming anybody. The fact is that one is not balanced psychologically, mentally, or sexually; in every way we are off balance. Now the important thing is to become aware of it, to know that one is not balanced, not how to become balanced.”
—Krishnamurti
“Confusion implies choice and choice is the product of thought. Shall I do this or that - the “me” and the “not me,” the “you” and the “not you,” “we” and “they,” and so on, all that is implied by thought. And out of this arises confusion and from that confusion we choose; we choose our political leaders, our gurus, and so many other things, but when there is clarity, then there is direct perception. And to be clear, the mind must be completely quiet, completely still, then there is real understanding and therefore that understanding is action. It isn’t the other way around.”
—J. Krishnamurti
“Not much to say except to warn you not to get too serious about all this, if you want to become a writer of fiction in the future. If you intend to become a critic, that is a Whale of another color…Playing around with symbols, even as a critic, can be a kind of kiddish parlor game. A little of it goes a long way. There are other things of greater value in any novel or story…humanity, character analysis, truth on other levels…Good symbolism should be as natural as breathing…and as unobtrusive.”
—Ray Bradbury
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and to listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
—Oscar Wilde
