“A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.”
Hester to Dellarobia, her daughter-in-law, Flight Behavior, page 462 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).
Flight Behavior (2012)
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American author, poet and essayist 1955Related quotes
“6295. Birds of a Feather
Flock together.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.”
Context: Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. I knew a lot of writers in London and many of them were award-winning writers and many of them were award-winning, respectable writers. And the trouble with being an award-winning, respectable writer is that you probably are not making a living.
If you write one well-reviewed, well-respected, not bad selling, but not a bestseller list book every three years, which you sell for a whopping 30,000 pounds, that's still going to average out to 10,000 pounds a year and you will make more managing a McDonald's. With overtime you'd probably make more working in a McDonald's. So there were incredibly well-respected, award-winning senior writers who, to make ends meet, were writing film novelizations and TV novelizations under pen names that they were desperately embarrassed about and didn't want anybody to know about.
January magazine interview (2002)
“We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this.”
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
“It was all a matter of control. And Choice.
Nothing more, nothing less”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
In a letter to Hans Fehr, 1937; as quoted in Brücke und Berlin: 100 Jahre Expressionismus, Anita Beloubek-Hammer, ed.; Berlin: Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2005, p. 338 (transl. (transl. Claire Albiez)
When die Brücke was shown at the infamous 'Degenerate Art' show in Munich by the Nazi's in 1937, Kirchner wrote this to Hans Fehr
1930's
