“Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.”
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
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QRO Magazine interview (2007)
Context: The first thing I did when I picked up any instrument, when I was five years old, was write a song. It's kind of funny; I thought about it, statements that it's a "solo effort" — it's kind of like, "Oh, well I've been doing this since I was five." I was kind of doing this before I did anything else.
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) American author
Source: Fiction, Picnic on Paradise (1968), p. 119
“There was no way of knowing anything, he knew, not even that there was no way of knowing anything.”
Joseph Heller book Catch-22
Source: Catch-22 (1961), pp. 266
“Decorative and edifying. That is what I want art to be before anything else.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) French painter
as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [41] <br class="br">Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922
“Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else."
Then let's be quiet together.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: The Favorite Game