Source: The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 43.
“The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.”
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter 8, p. 200
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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991Related quotes
Everett Dean Martin
(1880–1941)
"New Pastor in Initial Sermon," The Register and Leader (Des Moines), January 16, 1911, p. 5
Ibid., p. 121
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O império supremo é o do Imperador que abdica de toda a vida normal, dos outros homens, em quem o cuidado da supremacia não pesa como um fardo de jóias.
Source: The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Chapter XIII: The Greatest Danger, The State
“You learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again”
Kurt Vonnegut
(1922–2007) American writer
Interviewed by J. Rentilly, "The Best Jokes Are Dangerous" http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/09/16vonnegut1.html, McSweeny's (September 2002)
Various interviews
Context: You learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again, and your father is always in your head when that stuff happens. Writing, most of the time, for most people, is an accident and your father is there for that, too. You know, I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work. Your father won't let it happen.
