180:10:1
Sermons
Context: I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I’m telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God, and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.
“I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.”
Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 142
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
“I look at Death Proof and realize I had too much time.”
Quentin Tarantino (1963) American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor
http://web.archive.org/20090520151810/www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/interviews_profiles/e3i07c80a70350aca72e68eea8ffc6de060.
Josef Albers (1888–1976) German-American artist and educator
Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)
“Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
Luis Alberto Urrea (1955) Mexican-American poet
On how his father’s death propelled him towards writing in “Mexican-American Author Finds Inspiration In Family, Tragedy And Trump” https://www.npr.org/2018/03/05/590839936/mexican-american-author-finds-inspiration-in-family-tragedy-and-trump in NPR (2018 Mar 5)
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
To Fanny Brawne (c. February 1820)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: "If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."
