“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
“It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.”
Anna Wulf, in "Free Women: 1"<!-- p. 59 -->
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.
Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 6, “Embarras de Richesses”
As quoted in Garry Davis Cult, Life (Jan 24, 1949)
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 92.
“When a Man has Married a Wife
He finds out whether
Her Knees & elbows are only
glued together.”
Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1800–1803)
1800s
As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob"
