“I am burning myself up and will always do so.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
“I suppose you burned the library—barbarians always do.”
Source: Short fiction, A Style in Treason (1970), Chapter 9 (p. 154)
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Variant: I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Criticism
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1993/11
About himself
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Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Jerome's suicide note
The Pillow Book
Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Variant: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Context: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
A response to the Nazi book burnings, "The Burning of the Books"
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything