The Satanic Bible (1969)
“The fact is, you get great art only from mutilated egos. Only mutilated egos are obsessive enough.”
Playboy interview (May 1995)
Context: The fact is, you get great art only from mutilated egos. Only mutilated egos are obsessive enough. When I entered graduate school in 1968, 1 thought women were going to have all these enormous achievements, that they would redo everything. Then I saw every one of my female friends — these great minds who were going to transform the world — get married, move because their husbands moved and have babies. I screamed at them: What are you doing? Finish your great book! But they all read me the riot act. They said, "Camille, we are not you." They said, "We want life. We want love. We want happiness. We are not happy — like you are — just living off ideas." I am weird.
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George Goodman
(1930–2014) American author and economics commentator
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“My ego only needs a good rhythm section.”
Miles Davis
(1926–1991) American jazz musician
In [Milestones: The music and times of Miles Davis since 1960, Jack, Chambers, Beech Tree Books, 1983, 9780688046460, 261]
"My ego only needs a good rhythm section" is also the title of an interview/article by Stephen Davis for The Real Paper (21 March 1973)
On being asked what he looked for in musicians.
1970s
Analysis Terminable and Interminable, sect. 5 (1937); reprinted in Complete Works, Standard Edition, vol. 23 (ed. James Strachey and Anna Freud. 1964); as quoted in The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Robert Andrews, Penguin Books, 2001.
1930s
“Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.”
Martin Buber
book
I and Thou
I and Thou (1923)
