Philip Roth book The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
p 258-259
Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens (1994)
Philip Roth book The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
Charles Rosen (1927–2012) American pianist and writer on music
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 3 : Mountains and Song Cycles
“The best way to regain poetry is to recreate it.”
Xu Yuanchong (1921) Translator of Chinese poetry
Source: 300 Tang Poems: A New Translation (1987), p. xxi
“What you are is the memory, bundle of memories, experiences, thoughts.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Source: 1970s, Krishnamurti in India, 1970-71 (1971), p. 56
Context: So you must ask this question, put this question to yourself, whether your mind can be empty of all its past and yet retain the technological knowledge, your engineering knowledge, your linguistic knowledge, the memory of all that, and yet function from a mind that is completely empty. The emptying of that mind comes about naturally, sweetly without bidding, when you understand yourself, when you understand what you are. What you are is the memory, bundle of memories, experiences, thoughts. When you understand that, look at it, observe it; and when you observe it, see in that observation that there is no duality between the observer and the observed; then when you see that, you will see that your mind can be completely empty, attentive, and in that attention you can act wholly, without any fragmentation.
Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author
Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.109
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Source: Adventures In Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology (1975), pp.118-119