“"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.”
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
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Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov… 1913–1995Related quotes
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Psycho-analysis and faith: the letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister (1963 edition)
Attributed from posthumous publications
“So if that little thing can do so much, who knows what else we can experience?”
Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?
Context: A friend told me that there are these clean and sober dykes that have piercings every couple months just to get high. It's about learning about my body. I didn't know my body could do this. It's not exactly pleasure. It's more like vision. I didn't know the body is such a visionary factory.
Basically we grew up not wanting to know that we had bodies. And it's not as if these piercings are in that deep — it's just on the surface. So if that little thing can do so much, who knows what else we can experience?
Adam Levine (1979) singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer from the United States
On his favorite summer concert
Halperin, Shirley (2004-07-08), "Adam Levine of Maroon 5". Rolling Stone. (952/953):28.
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) American abstract expressionist painter
Mark Tobey Retrospective Exhibition, New York, Whitney Museum, 1951
1950's
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker
Kirchner had been inspired by movement and trains his whole life. He painted a. o. 'Nollendorfplatz' in West Berlin https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner_-_Nollendorfplatz.jpg - it was one of the stops on the first electrical tram (Straßenbahn) in 1896, according to 'Lexicon der Berliner Stadtentwicklung'. Berlin, 2002. The Underground (Untergrundbahn) followed in 1902, also with a stop at 'Nollendorfplatz' <br class="br">undated <br class="br">Source: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: ein Künstlerleben in Selbstzeugnissen, Andreas Gabelmann; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany 2010, p. 17 (transl. Claire Albiez)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)